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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:10657 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:13212 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3913 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!epflnews!dinews.epfl.ch!almesber From: almesber@lrc.epfl.ch (Werner Almesberger) 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: 2 Aug 1995 11:40:56 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3vno88$1ng@disunms.epfl.ch> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com> <3uqoe2$420@dyson.iquest.net> <3vmba9$e18@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lrcsuns.epfl.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <3vmba9$e18@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>, Perry Grieb <c23peg@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> wrote: > Everytime I try to ftp cica.edu, I get kicked out because it's > overloaded (at max number of users). Everytime I try to ftp > cdrom.com, I get in. cica> 230-** Micron P5-90 PCI PowerStation+ Linux 1.2.10 64MB memory 6GB disks cica> You are user number: 70 (of a possible 160) cdrom> 230-There are currently 215 users out of 300 possible. cdrom> 230-This machine is a 100Mhz Pentium with 128MB of memory & 52GB of [...] Twice the memory for twice the users. If the primary operation is data retrieval and transmission over comparably slow networks (as opposed to CPU- and IO-intensive tasks like database searches), this seems to make sense. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, DI-LRC,EPFL,CH werner.almesberger@lrc.di.epfl.ch / /_IN_R_311__Tel_+41_21_693_6621__Fax_+41_21_693_6610_____________________/