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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!constellation!rex!ben From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) Subject: Re: how man users can FreeBSD (or NetBSD) support? Message-ID: <CvpxyK.290@rex.uokhsc.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 17:30:19 GMT Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu References: <1994Aug29.230845.20621@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <jmonroyCvDyuC.DL@netcom.com> <FOO-MAN.94Sep5153824@raven.raven.csrv.uidaho.edu> <34h1hc$gp6@orion.cc.andrews.edu> Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma Lines: 41 gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) writes: >In article <FOO-MAN.94Sep5153824@raven.raven.csrv.uidaho.edu> foo-man@uidaho.edu writes: >>In article <jmonroyCvDyuC.DL@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: >> >> Not to start another flame-war but 386bsd (and I understand >> Freebsd does also) has been tested with 200+ users. >> The tests were conducted at UCSF. >> I am speaking of 386bsd release 1.0, of course. >> >> I believe they used a 486/33 and a 1 gigabyte SCSI HD. >> >>i don't believe you. >> >>if you want me to, give me proof. if you think you don't need to prove >>that to me, well, you're wasting your time. >Not to have this topic drag on forever, but... >How would you support 200+ users on *BSD? Doesn't each login >require a pty? How many pty's can *BSD support? I have 64 >defined in my kernel, can I define 256? Or 128? >Not that I'd have that many logged into my box, I just would like >to know.. Maybe someday I'll have a Quad Pentium 120 with 4 ethernets, >T1, 256MB RAM, 12GB disk, etc.. and want 200+ plus people logged >into my system. Maybe they are going in through hardwired terminals...I don't know, though. Can really say, "I am supported 200 users on my 486" when you only have 1 GB of disk? I mean that is 50K/person (minus shared system code). I could believe they had 200 people logged on a once. I can't believe they were actually doing anything... >-Andrew (off I go to screw up my kernel config file) >-- >#!/bin/sh - ============================================== >echo "Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu" >echo "Winix Hacker" >#========================================================= -- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen