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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!emory!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!spcuna!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: Was: ISP , now: How Using FBSD? References: <3pqb92$lq2@pt9201.ped.pto.ford.com> <3prh5v$au8@fnord.dfw.net> <D91zw7.J95@tfs.com> <D92Dxq.3C7@aldhfn.aldhfn.org> Organization: Mordor International Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 06:07:22 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <D92JoB.B0I@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 66 ciaran (ciaran@aldhfn.org) wrote: : Julian Elischer (julian@mailhub.tfs.com) wrote: : : In article <3prh5v$au8@fnord.dfw.net>, <donsethf@dump.com> wrote: : : >Is there anybody out there that is using this software as an ISP? if so : : >please contact me.:) : : In fact let us know as well, : : the freeBSD crew would like to know how it's being used.. : : (comments, etc.) : I'm using 2.0R here. It handles the shell accounts and news. News : is handled by nntp and cnews. It also holds the pop mail boxes for dialup : slip and ppp accounts. The terminal server actually handles the slip and : ppp accounts with the FreeBSD box only doing authentication on them.. : I don't think the system would handle the slip and ppp along with : everything else. There are a lot of core dumps all over the place and : an occassional memory fault. sh in particular seems to produce a lot of : core dumps. It could be due to the load of work that the system is doing : all the time ;-). : This is 2.0 though. I haven't had the time to update to a later : version as the system is just too busy. We have 7 phone lines with 6 more : due for installation any day now. : We're putting together another FreeBSD box that will do nothing : but handle news. It will hav the latest version of FreeBSD installed. It : will be interesting to see how that box does since it will have slightly : different hardware and a newer version of the OS ;-). : I'll let you know how things go after we have the other system : online. We're just waiting for the memory to come in. I currently use BSDI 1.0 (with lots of patches) as my main workhorse machine. It has absolutely no problems supporting 40-60 simultaneous users. Hardware: Intel Plato P-90 mboard 256k cache 96mb RAM Buslogic 946C scsi controller bunch of barracudas couple of decserver 700 terminal servers lots o modems in 2 separate POPs. T1 to the net. The same box also does all the news/mail/httpd processing and the system load rarely goes above 0.50. According to top, the cpu is normally about 90% idle. One of the reasons I'm looking at FreeBSD is to see if it's up to the task of running NCSA httpd 1.4 and doing my news processing. (I currently get pretty full feed.) Anyway, I hope this helps. Regards, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451