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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: how man users can FreeBSD (or NetBSD) support? Date: 6 Sep 1994 06:17:16 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <34h1hc$gp6@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <1994Aug29.230845.20621@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <jmonroyCvDyuC.DL@netcom.com> <FOO-MAN.94Sep5153824@raven.raven.csrv.uidaho.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <FOO-MAN.94Sep5153824@raven.raven.csrv.uidaho.edu> foo-man@uidaho.edu writes: >In article <jmonroyCvDyuC.DL@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: > > Not to start another flame-war but 386bsd (and I understand > Freebsd does also) has been tested with 200+ users. > The tests were conducted at UCSF. > I am speaking of 386bsd release 1.0, of course. > > I believe they used a 486/33 and a 1 gigabyte SCSI HD. > >i don't believe you. > >if you want me to, give me proof. if you think you don't need to prove >that to me, well, you're wasting your time. Not to have this topic drag on forever, but... How would you support 200+ users on *BSD? Doesn't each login require a pty? How many pty's can *BSD support? I have 64 defined in my kernel, can I define 256? Or 128? Not that I'd have that many logged into my box, I just would like to know.. Maybe someday I'll have a Quad Pentium 120 with 4 ethernets, T1, 256MB RAM, 12GB disk, etc.. and want 200+ plus people logged into my system. -Andrew (off I go to screw up my kernel config file) -- #!/bin/sh - ============================================== echo "Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu" echo "Winix Hacker" #=========================================================