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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!akiy From: akiy@netcom.com (Jun Akiyama) Subject: Re: PCI/Pentium and *BSD Message-ID: <akiyCtyzD2.F1@netcom.com> Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <3164co$lvh@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 17:31:49 GMT Lines: 30 Kevin Sullivan (ksulliva@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Hello. I am looking at fast 486 or Pentium boxes running NetBSD or FreeBSD > for use as low-cost servers in schools (elementary through high). > Currently we use Decstations and Sparcs. The machines have to serve mail, > NFS, WWW, IMAP, etc, as well as a large number of telnet sessions. I have > machines with both *BSDs now and they are working out pretty well. However > I am afraid that a 486/66 may not be powerful enough when 15-20 people log > in and want to use gopher (or whatever). Freebsd.cdrom.com *used* to be running on a 486/66 with 64 megabytes of memory. However, the machine would bog down to an unbearable crawl when about 130 users logged on for FTPing. Although I think that this is mostly due to the T1 bandwidth being all used up, a 486/66 should be enough for 15-20 users... > Has anyone tried NetBSD or FreeBSD on a Pentium? Well, freebsd.cdrom.com just got upgraded to a P5-90 with 64 megabytes of memory a few days ago, and it's running well. We had a whole heck of a lot of problems getting some of the motherboards we used to work, but the one we're using right now seems to be working pretty well. (I personally also have a P5-90 with FreeBSD running on my home machine, too, and it's working (shall we say) *quite* nicely...) > -Kevin Hope that helps some. Jun Akiyama Technical Supervisor, Walnut Creek CDROM