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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: wcarchive performance
Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:25:41 GMT
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mconst@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Constant) writes:

> Since
> there are people here who have first-hand experience working with
> wcarchive, I'm wondering if anyone could comment on how it performs
> under the type of load that about 150 login users would impose.  Any
> responses would be greatly appreciated.

Given that wcarchive does now support 600 ftp users (with potentially
more than one process per user on average, thanks to the tar/gzip
facilities of wuftp), i wouldn't suspect any larger problems for you,
provided you configure enough of swap just in case.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)