From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 26 22:52:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA00792 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:52:20 -0700 Received: from tsunami.jurai.net (root@tsunami.jurai.net [205.218.122.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA00787 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:52:18 -0700 Received: (from winter@localhost) by tsunami.jurai.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA13835; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 00:52:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 00:52:52 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@tsunami To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: New lmbench available (fwd) In-Reply-To: <16298.814768494@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > The big problem all ISPs are having is that this stuff just doesn't > scale very well. If you could just drop another P5 into the soup and > "cluster" it transparently then we'd be looking at a whole 'nother > ballgame, but.. This kind of forces the really big ISPs into doing > exactly what Russell's ISP has done.. :-( If we had more shell users SGIs might be an option, but I don't think I'm ready to get rid of my FreeBSD machines yet... (If we had enough shell users to load down the P90 and kept the same ratio of shell/PPP-SLIP then we would have about 3000-4000 users...) Have a good one. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|