Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 23:29:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Nguyen Phi Khanh <nguyenpk@kuci.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To support 2k users.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971019232906.3627F-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971019151327.2893A-100000@falco.kuci.uci.edu>
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I have over 5k users - I just add boxes - I dont like all my eggs in 1 basket - and freebsd is more rugged than SCO was. On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Nguyen Phi Khanh wrote: > > I'm planning on supporting 2000 users and I'm wondering if anyone > has any good ideas on what I should do. I plan on either buying multiple > boxes of Dual Pentium Pro machines to support a fraction of the 2k users > on FreeBSD or BSD/OS, *or* buy one or two Sun Sparc Ultras. I'm not too > sure how well FreeBSD or BSD/OS does SMP either. Anyone supporting 2k > users willing to give me any advice on how I should approach this? I'm > curious as to how many shell users can one Dual PPro 200 box running FBSD > handle. Any suggestions or ideas or speculations would be welcomed. :) > > -Khanh > nguyenpk@kuci.org > nguyenpk@quadrunner.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ryan Phi Khanh Nguyen Network Manager > E-mail nguyenpk@kuci.org for Public Key http://kuci.org/~nguyenpk > PGP Key fingerprint = 4B B3 5B 7D 21 95 67 23 58 9C AD 64 44 57 CC 5D > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
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