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Re: Hardware for Internet providers
incorrect. a sun would handle multiple users and multiple processes MUCH
better. and 400 customers is NOTHING... NetVision has 5 digits number of
customers :). and our primary server is only a Sparc20.
--- On Mon, 19 Feb 1996 17:19:13 +0200 (IST) Ira Abramov
<ira@bushwack.gilo.jlm.k12.il> wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Oleg Sverdlov wrote:
>
>> I've been told that Pentium is not enough for large number of
>> simultaneous connections. Since then, I think that they should work
>> with Sun stations...
>a sun 40 amounts to about a Pentium 90 and costs 5 times if not more. a
>friend of mine once ran data through 400 PPP processes on a 486DX66 with
>16 meg, and all was smooth as hell... (didn't bother the CPU :-) what you
>want then is a good network card, a stable kernel, and most of the memory
will
>go for caching the http requests, and running apps like harvest engines,
>and various service daemons. a second computer may be used for backup,
>but for under 100 users, or maybe 70, one computer is enough.
>
> .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not
>-() < circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a
> `*' straight line." ,------------------------------------------------
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