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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:10061 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:12897 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3550 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <id.VAPL1.0SA@nmti.com> <3uhstv$pf@empire.texas.net> <id.GARL1.I6A@nmti.com> <3ukd4q$9h0@kadath.zeitgeist.net> Organization: Mordor International Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:46:08 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <DC0M4w.4px@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 50 Amancio Hasty, Jr. (hasty@rah.star-gate.com) wrote: : peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: : >In article <3uhstv$pf@empire.texas.net>, : >Joseph R.M. Zbiciak <im14u2c@millenium.texas.net> wrote: : >> It's certainly possible. I wouldn't recommend it, however. At least, : >> not yet. Too many PC boxes have suboptimal architectures. More established : >> workstation-class machines would probably be better choices, and nowadays, : >> such machines can be had for the same price as a big PC. : > : >I maybe would consider an Alpha-based box, because then you're getting more : >horsepower than you can get out of a PC, period. But the low end Alpha servers : >use the same bus as the PCs! : However, the Alphas can drive the PCI at full speed and I am not sure that : this matters for an ISP since the bottleneck most likely will be the network : connection. I would chose FreeBSD or Netbsd on a P90 with a nice PCI : adapter Bustek or Adaptec and if you really have to I would tried out Linux. Actually, on a multiuser machine, I've found that disk IO is the biggest bottleneck. The cpu is usually fairly idle. My setup: P90 96mb RAM Buslogic 946C PCI SCSI-2 card scads of 2mb Barracudas BSDI OS v1.0 thin ether to Cisco 2500 to T1 Often, with 30+ people logged in the load is well under 0.50 and top shows the cpu at roughly 80% idle. Any serious disk activity sends the load to 1-2 and cpu utilization goes way up as well. :( : On the traditional workstations, the one objection that I have is : support and the lack of sources *freely* available. Yep. : Not sure if it matters but my system is also connected to the MBONE . Cool. How do you like it? 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