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From: dth@cistron.nl (Danny ter Haar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 23 Jul 1995 19:24:36 +0200
Organization: Cistron Internet Services - the Netherlands
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Message-ID: <3uu0kk$55g@picard.cistron.nl>
References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <id.0ASL1.EQ9@nmti.com> <DC2KAn.J9@iglou.com> <id.UBTL1.RX9@nmti.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: picard.cistron.nl

peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
>
>Kernel PPP shouldn't chew up much ram per port.
>
Our terminal server: cs-1.alphen.cistron.nl

486Dx2/66 with 8mb RAM and 40 Mb harddisk
15 modems attached to it ( 13 modems to cyclades and 2 on the standard com
ports since we have 3 defective ports on the cyclade 16)

Linux version 1.2.11 (miquels@Q.cistron.nl) (gcc version 2.6.3) #1 [cs-1.alphen.cistron.nl]

Memory:        Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers
Mem:            7056        6776         280        4968        2508
Swap:           8244         276        7968

Bootup: Mon Jul 10 08:44:10 1995    Load average: 0.03 0.03 0.00 1/31

user  :       0:23:00.77   0.1%	    page in :    42989	  disk 1:   789524
nice  :       0:00:00.00   0.0%	    page out:   811490	
system:       3:29:31.76   1.1%	    swap in :    97096	
idle  :  13d  6:41:31.90  98.8%	    swap out:      246	
uptime:  13d 10:34:04.40	    context :  8682675

irq  0: 116124443  timer                irq  8:         0                      
irq  1:         8 keyboard              irq  9:         0                      
irq  2:         0 cascade+ [4]          irq 10: 165902914  cyclades            
irq  3: 125441162  serial               irq 11:         0                      
irq  4:   2854940 serial+               irq 12:         0                      
irq  5:         0                       irq 13:         1 math error           
irq  6:         0                       irq 14:   2487696 ide0+                
irq  7:         0                       irq 15:  16006122 ne2000               

As you see the irq's from the cyclades are 1.5 the timer irq's
cool isn't it ?

This machines handles al ppp/slip connections from incoming calls.
It has only 8mb ram and is still happy with it .


Danny


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Danny ter Haar, dth@cistron.nl          Cistron Internet Services
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