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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!edgar From: edgar@ms.washington.edu (Edgar Karl Nielsen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Multiuser performance Date: 11 Apr 1993 21:48:53 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 25 Message-ID: <1qa3o5INNpk4@shelley.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: entropy.ms.washington.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] Hi, I'm thinking of getting a unix workstation for a BBS and was wondering what the multiuser performance of 386bsd is like. The FAQ info doesn't seem to cover this stuff. I'm wondering if it would be better to buy a used sun or somesuch. I'm more familiar with Sun and DEC stuff! People would be on via the network(terminal server) as opposed to serial ports. News reading would be from another host via NNTP and their home directories would be NFS mounted from another host. So how many users can be on with "reasonable" interactive response time if they are just reading news, sending mail, etc. I would put together a system with whatever RAM & disks were required to support (preferably) 4-10 simultaneous users. I know this is vague - I've just not seen any info on the performance of the [34]86 UNIX systems compared to suns, decstations, etc. All opinions are my own.... --------- Edgar Nielsen Math Sciences Computing Center (206) 543-6466 University of Washington,Seattle 98195