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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: RAM requirements for FTP server Date: 18 Nov 1995 13:17:56 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <48kitk$l06@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48enj9$98j@interport.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit David Tay <davidtay@interport.net> wrote: >Is 64 mb enough for an FTP server with a maximum load of 150 users? Is >that too much? How do you gauge how much ram each FTP user requires? > >I know that cdrom.com has a peak of 325 users on a 128mb machine. Is this >overkill? This ain't overkill, this is Jordan's experience figure for that machine. Supporting more users is rather simple: put in more RAM. Unfortunately, the manufacturers of PC hardware don't seem to be very eager in producing a mainboard that could fit much more RAM. If your ftp site does not allow on-the-fly tar'ing and gzip'ing, you might slightly increase the number of users per megabyte RAM. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)