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From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
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References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3uo1mt$5uv@picard.cistron.nl> <3uoiet$bgu@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 11:46:10 GMT

In article <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com>,
Tom Czarnik <czarnik@vista.netmanage.com> wrote:
>In article <3uoiet$bgu@orion.cc.andrews.edu>, gillham@andrews.edu says...
>
>>Not quite 256... :-)  I suppose at night that might change, but you
>>didn't clarify that.  Also, ftp.cica.indiana.edu has 2GB of disk, not
>>40GB+ like ftp.cdrom.com.  I'm not arguing FreeBSD vs Linux, I'm just
>>saying that ftp.cica.indiana.edu and ftp.cdrom.com are in a different
>>class as ftp servers go.
>
>ftp.cdrom.com is that busy because it primarily acts as a mirror
>for other archives, whereas CICA's ftp server is the real archive.
>
ftp.cdrom.com is running FreeBSD and deals with the load very efficiently.  
(The CPU plant is just a single 100MHz pentium.)

John
dyson@root.com