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From: almesber@lrc.epfl.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 2 Aug 1995 11:40:56 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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In article <3vmba9$e18@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>,
Perry Grieb <c23peg@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> wrote:
> Everytime I try to ftp cica.edu, I get kicked out because it's
> overloaded (at max number of users).  Everytime I try to ftp
> cdrom.com, I get in.

cica> 230-**  Micron P5-90 PCI PowerStation+ Linux 1.2.10 64MB memory 6GB disks
cica> You are user number:  70 (of a possible 160)

cdrom> 230-There are currently 215 users out of 300 possible.
cdrom> 230-This machine is a 100Mhz Pentium with 128MB of memory & 52GB of [...]

Twice the memory for twice the users. If the primary operation is data
retrieval and transmission over comparably slow networks (as opposed to
CPU- and IO-intensive tasks like database searches), this seems to make
sense.

- Werner
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