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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: BSDI vs Win NT and netscape commerce server X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4bben7$4tp@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <4aku63$4bd@news.nstn.ca> <4asdm6$bkm@arrow.va.pubnix.com> <4avvgb$br@dyson.iquest.net> <4b8crk$fnh@news.voicenet.com> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 10:59:51 GMT Lines: 31 In article <4b8crk$fnh@news.voicenet.com>, Lamer <Lamer> wrote: >root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) wrote: > >> I have heard that with a new (reasonable cost) upgrade, ftp.freebsd.org >>will be serving between 500-1000 FTP users soon. > >true enough, but the reasonable cost upgrade includes at least a P6 >box. they are testing it now. > True again -- but it had previously run with 400-500 users on a Neptune P5 with 192MB of memory.. The da*n triton chipset only supports 128MB of which 64MB was cached -- and the triton "upgrade" was necessary for increasing the number of PCI bus-masters :-(. Wcarchive is mostly memory limited, and most likely would have been setting at 500 users all along otherwise. The CPU is a bonus more than anything (The MB supports more bus-masters and memory.) If they (WC) upgraded their internet link, 1000+ users should be possible. Note that it appears to take about 200-300K per ftp user on FreeBSD (and additionally, *evil* *nasty* perl-mirror scripts run taking 80MB of memory also, since wcarchive is a big mirror site.) I think that NT will have a ways to go before it reaches the performance and utility level of *BSD*. (Free/Net/Open and BSDI.) BTW, I use NT (3.5,3.51) -- I know NT and I know what it can do... And I am impressed in that it is the first real OS that I have seen from Microsoft. They have done a good job, but the *BSD* stuff is still better in the performance arena (in general.) I have some personal problems with NT -- I don't like it, but that is not germane to this discussion... John dyson@freebsd.org