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From: dlinford@trance.helix.net (D. Linford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in)
Date: 7 Mar 1995 17:49:34 -0800
Organization: Erisian Development Group
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References: <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> <3jaca9$pj@zeus.achilles.net> <3jfqpv$nhd@earth.laitram.com> <3jg3g0$n0p@park.uvsc.edu>
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In article <3jg3g0$n0p@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>marksu@laitram.com (Mark Sutton) wrote:
>] I would not expect my car to last very long if I ran the engine at redline
>] continuously.
>
>There is a big difference between "red line" and rated capacity.
>
>Especially for non-mechanical systems... why do people try to
>pretend that the telephone is a mechanical appliance?
>
>] Although, a typical 486 or Pentium computer running *IX might
>] have hundreds of user accounts, I would not expect it to perform
>] acceptably with 500 users logged in simultaneously, all running
>] CPU intensive apps.
>
>Freefall.cdrom.com is a P90 that functions acceptably under a 500
>user continuous load.

	Are you saying with 500 folks ftp'ing (assuming it is what you
are talking about), that the link to the machine still has
capacity. Ie: the link to the net is not limiting the load. (even a
saturated DS3 is only about 4.5Mbyt/s either way...).

d

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