From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 19 20:30:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA22223 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 20:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA22199; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 20:30:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet7.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet7.buffnet.net [205.246.19.28]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA16051; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 23:29:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 23:29:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Nguyen Phi Khanh cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To support 2k users.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >