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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 1995 08:26:44 -0600 (CST)
From:      Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Mail...
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.950329082329.21890D-100000@alpha.dsu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503290304.TAA00991@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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On Tue, 28 Mar 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > >>>             Did your comment mean to imply that an Intel based FreeBSD
> > >>> providing what people would generally think of as acceptable response can
> > >>> support 500 mail accounts?
> 
> I know of a local pubnix machine that is supportint approx 1200 accounts
> running FreeBSD 1.1.5, it has 32 dial up lines, and full internet
> connectivity.  The work load is a lot more than just mail reading.
> [...]
> 
> If you assume only 1% of the folks attempt to get access there mail
> at once this is 250 interactive users, your going to need a lot of
> machine to handle that, but FreeBSD could handle it.  (Last time
> I checked wcarchive.cdrom.com was supporting 400 ftp connections).

Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't FreeBSD have a limit of 256 psuedo-ttys? 
(Then again, this might have changed in 2.x.) That could be hard limit on
interactive sessions...

> [...]
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 
> > Mark Hittinger
> > bugs@win.net
> -- 
> Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
> Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD

Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu




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