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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:710 comp.os.linux.networking:11134 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.networking Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!cs.vu.nl!philip From: philip@cs.vu.nl (Philip Homburg) Subject: Re: optimal system for WWW server? Nntp-Posting-Host: centaur.cs.vu.nl References: <ERICDING.95Jul28142614@gaston.mit.edu> <3vbp0p$ddo@inews.sc.intel.com> <DD03C3.IqH@info.swan.ac.uk> <408rmp$fbu@news4.digex.net> Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 17:21:27 GMT Message-ID: <DD207s.3xH.0.-s@cs.vu.nl> Lines: 21 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