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Re: Linux Server



Hi, 

Do you of anyone ever doing it, that is using a linux machine as a server
for more than say 10 people (20 is approx. the max) and can say
whether it runs good or bad!! 


Thanks,
adham







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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Ury Segal wrote:

> 
> 
> Eli Marmor wrote:
> 
> > > Hi, Well we have been thinking along the following lines:
> > >
> > > a dual PII 350Mhz with 0.5GB RAM, 9GB diska.
> >
> > You mentioned 20 simultaneous users, each of them runs Netscape,
> > XEmacs, TeX, etc. With 0.5GB, each will have only 20MB (assuming the
> > system also eats something). I think you need more.
> 
> What can I say, If Linux can't handle 20 such users using 512M, you can
> trash it now. But, you know what? It easily can. Don't waste your money on more
> than .5 Gig.
> which is too much anyhow.
> 
> That kind of simplistic calculations is completly wrong.