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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:11222 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:13533 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4250 Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!shell2.best.com!not-for-mail From: rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter) 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 19:51:38 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com) Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3vpdjq$pho@shell2.best.com> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3uqoe2$420@dyson.iquest.net> <3vmba9$e18@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> <3vno88$1ng@disunms.epfl.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell2.best.com In article <3vno88$1ng@disunms.epfl.ch>, Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.epfl.ch> wrote: >In article <3vmba9$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. Hmm, I'd like to see this: it would cost less than $2K to upgrade this (largest world-wide?) linux site to the same amount of memory as the largest ftp site in the world. Seems like an interesting thing to do, eh? Russell > >- Werner >-- > _________________________________________________________________________ > / Werner Almesberger, DI-LRC,EPFL,CH werner.almesberger@lrc.di.epfl.ch / >/_IN_R_311__Tel_+41_21_693_6621__Fax_+41_21_693_6610_____________________/