Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:34:26 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> To: "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980124003235.15866H-100000@tor-adm1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980123124559.16809C-100000@adam.adonai.net>
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Lee Crites (AEI) wrote:
>
> This is what I was told was needed for a windoze nt box running an
> isp with 8 dial-up lines. It was a copy of a machine I saw at an
> operating isp which ran like your average windoze box (read: like a
> dog). Actually, that's a lie. The isp box was, if I recall, a
> p133. I figured my p200 would make it acceptable...
Geez... I used to run P133 128MB shell servers on FreeBSD 2.1.0
that could comfortably handle ~100 users. With today's CPU's and the
price of memory, it's too bad we can only get 256 pty's per machine.
I'll bet a nice Pentium II system could handle 500 shell users.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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