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Re: Linux Server



On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Hashibon Adham wrote:

> 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!! 
> [...]

Peace people! No need to fight about what a single machine can do. 
There're situations where a single user (with a single process) can bring
a strong system to its knees.  But most of the time even a simple P200
would waste CPU cycles.

I know that in HUJI CS institute second year students (and others) do most
of their work via 2 servers each one being i686 with 512M RAM.  In its
peak moments it certainly holds more than 20 users (KDE, Netscape, XEmacs 
gcc and other monsters). Sometimes it's slow - but see my remark below.

There're other critical things to consider, which will affect the
performance more than an additional CPU or a G of RAM - your disks (maybe
SCSI?), the network architecture, network hardware etc (use good cards).

Regards,
Andre.

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