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Re: Hardware for Internet providers
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.
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