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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
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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....
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Edgar Nielsen
Math Sciences Computing Center					(206) 543-6466
University of Washington,Seattle 98195