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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 12:54:11 -0400
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
From: Jeffrey Ehrenkrantz <jehren@jehrenkrantz.whyy.org>
Subject: Re: INN problem
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JG, On a related matter What size pipe is required to deal with the load you
mention. Specificaly Full news feed without loss of feed data ?
tnx ..je

At 11:04 AM 8/14/96 -0500, you wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Chris Timmons wrote:
>> 
>
>Given an appropriate disk I/O subsystem, I would probably hazard a guess of
>about 110, based on a client's experiences and observations.  CPU is not a
>real factor - get a P133 or even P100.  You need to be running the
>sharedactive patch too.
>
>Note:  This does not prevent you from trying to drive 250 clients off of the
>box, but performance suffers and your feeds will not keep up - you lose news.
>
>... JG
>
>