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Re: Hardware for Internet providers



Ofer Maor wrote:
> 
> 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.


Mr Ofer !
that's why netvision is very lagged the recent time ;))

i have an account in netvision and it's sometimes terrible to Be in the Internet !!!

You need much more Hardware !!!!

Michel