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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote:

> Enough would be my guess; the limiting factor would be the serial
> hardware.  
> 
> Note that ftp.cdrom.com is a PPro200 with either 256 or 512k of RAM, can
> accept 1500 network users, and it's limiting factor is network bandwidth.

FreeBSD uses memory efficiently, but not *that* efficiently.  
ftp.cdrom.com has 512 MB of RAM.
 
> 4GB might be too small depending on how much diskspace usage per user
> you're going to allow.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."