Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!chaos.dac.neu.edu!chaos.dac.neu.edu!johnson
From: johnson@chaos.dac.neu.edu (Chris Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: BSDI and INN performance.
Date: 12 May 1995 12:14:18 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Lines: 29
Message-ID: <3ovjeq$ni6@chaos.dac.neu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.dac.neu.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]
So I'm looking to replace my DECstation 5000/200 running ULTRIX
and INN with a P-100 running BSD and INN. My 5000 has four feeds and
runs around 40 to 50 clients at any one time during the day. That
number will grow. I might also like to put TIS' FWTK on it and do a
little security for the box.
Everyone I've received resposes from says INN will compile and run
easily on BSDI. I'm also told that TIS runs a slightly modified BSDI on
their Gauntlet system with an enhanced FWTK on top. So everything seems
to work.
Another question. Is a Pentium 100mHz with 32 bit E-Link III and
two or three Adaptec 17xx series EISA fast SCSI II controllers and 128MB
of RAM running BSDI and INN, FWTK, and maybe a little Gopher on the side,
going to be able to handle the load? The 5000 does at the moment. It's
just old technology and there is no more development for ULTRIX and I
don't want to spend more money on old technology. I'd like to upgrade
and I thought the above configuration might handle it.
Will it? Thanks much.
============================================================================
Chris Johnson Internet: johnson@chaos.dac.neu.edu
Assistant Director, Systems BITNET: johnson@nuhub
Division of Academic Computing Voice: 617.373.3300
Northeastern University, 39RI FAX: 617.373.8600
360 Huntington, Ave.
Boston, MA., U.S.A. 02115
============================================================================