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From: philip@cs.vu.nl (Philip Homburg)
Subject: Re: optimal system for WWW server?
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References: <ERICDING.95Jul28142614@gaston.mit.edu> <3vbp0p$ddo@inews.sc.intel.com> <DD03C3.IqH@info.swan.ac.uk> <408rmp$fbu@news4.digex.net>
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 17:21:27 GMT
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In article <408rmp$fbu@news4.digex.net>,
Trident Systems <trident@access2.digex.net> wrote:
%Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote:
%: In article <3vbp0p$ddo@inews.sc.intel.com> mwilley@xws181.sc.intel.com (Mark F Willey) writes:
%: >Well, your ethernet card is going to be faster than the ISDN link, so that's not
%: >it...  I'd get a pentium (100++) with PCI everything, SCSI disks, PCI ethernet.
%
%: Grossout way to spend too much money. Web server is where to put your 
%: surplus 486 boxes.
%
%We're running out Web server from a 486SX and it works just fine for 50+
%connections a day (not great but decent considering we didn't spend much
%on it).

I know a 386/33 that did >100000 connections/day (>1GBytes/day).
Does anyone know about a top 10 of small heavily loaded machines?
(Heavy? This is only a bit more than one fork() and 12KB per second...)



						Philip Homburg