From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 06:27:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA18984 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 06:27:07 -0800 Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA18978 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 06:27:05 -0800 Received: (from ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) id IAA21246; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 08:26:44 -0600 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 08:26:44 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: Mark Hittinger , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mail... In-Reply-To: <199503290304.TAA00991@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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