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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:10344 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:13071 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3751 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!dorite!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Message-ID: <3uqosv$437@dyson.iquest.net> Lines: 30 Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3uoiet$bgu@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com> <3uqoe2$420@dyson.iquest.net> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 11:54:07 GMT In article <3uqoe2$420@dyson.iquest.net>, John S. Dyson <root@dyson.iquest.net> wrote: >In article <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com>, >Tom Czarnik <czarnik@vista.netmanage.com> wrote: >>In article <3uoiet$bgu@orion.cc.andrews.edu>, gillham@andrews.edu says... >> >>>Not quite 256... :-) I suppose at night that might change, but you >>>didn't clarify that. Also, ftp.cica.indiana.edu has 2GB of disk, not >>>40GB+ like ftp.cdrom.com. I'm not arguing FreeBSD vs Linux, I'm just >>>saying that ftp.cica.indiana.edu and ftp.cdrom.com are in a different >>>class as ftp servers go. >> >>ftp.cdrom.com is that busy because it primarily acts as a mirror >>for other archives, whereas CICA's ftp server is the real archive. >> >ftp.cdrom.com is running FreeBSD and deals with the load very efficiently. >(The CPU plant is just a single 100MHz pentium.) > Sorry for following up to my own message -- but a few clarifications are in order --> ftp.cdrom.com == ftp.freebsd.org == wcarchive.cdrom.com == ... Note also that some observations had been made by the sysadmin of ftp.freebsd.org that if many of the downloads from the machine were not gzipped -- there would be a very significant amount of idle time even under heavy 300+- load... John dyson@root.com