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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: High-end FreeBSD server config suggestions needed please
Date: 17 Sep 1996 19:17:58 +0100
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M C Wong (mcw@aus.hp.com) wrote:
: Hi,
:     I will soon need a couple of very powerful server running FreeBSD 
: (perhaps 2.1.5), and it will be NFS, mail, DNS, NNTP, firewall, HTTP,
: FTP, login, router etc server. I have in mind about 4GB disk space and 
: 32MB RAM to start off with. 

Hmm, I don't think that this is considered "very powerful" by a lot of
the users on this group :)

:     However I remember someone saying that to support large numbers of 
: logins etc, the kernel needs to be configured differently for various 
: parameters. If so, can the kind person please reply to me for the
: appropriate instructions/changes to the kernel etc ?

Nope.  RTFM.  It's there - you're just being lazy !

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....