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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$ain@panix.com> <3uoiet$bgu@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com> <3uqoe2$420@dyson.iquest.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 11:54:07 GMT

In article <3uqoe2$420@dyson.iquest.net>,
John S. Dyson <root@dyson.iquest.net> wrote:
>In article <3upgga$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.)
>

Sorry for following up to my own message -- but a few clarifications are in
order --> ftp.cdrom.com == ftp.freebsd.org == wcarchive.cdrom.com == ...

Note also that some observations had been made by the sysadmin of
ftp.freebsd.org that if many of the downloads from the machine were
not gzipped -- there would be a very significant amount of idle time
even under heavy 300+- load...

John
dyson@root.com