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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!MathWorks.Com!uhog.mit.edu!uw-beaver!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: how man users can FreeBSD (or NetBSD) support? Date: 30 Aug 1994 16:26:11 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 25 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <33vmj3$1gk@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1994Aug29.230845.20621@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <1994Aug29.230845.20621@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, the fruit <bs003b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> wrote: >do you think a good 486/66 w/ SCSI hard drive running FreeBSD can >handle 20 or so concurrent users? the machine would be on a >university backbone to the net and would be handling email, NNTP from >another server, a gopher site, and www (outgoing only) for >college students. How much memory? If you stick 32MB on there, and they don't all try to do program development at once it should handle it no problem. Also, don't try to run X on that box, since X is a memory pig. If you want X on the console, add an extra 16MB of memory. :-) How much disk depends on what you decide to give the users, and how much the applications take. The operating system resides pretty well in 200MB when you have lots of users, so 200MB plus what the users want plus what the applications use up. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.