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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: RAM requirements for FTP server
Date: 20 Nov 1995 00:50:49 GMT
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davidtay@interport.net (David Tay) writes:

> 128mb divided by 325 user is like 393k per person. I checked the 
> processes and it looks like you're right: each FTP session was using 
> around 350k.

That's not entirely correct, but probably enough for the overall
picture: each ftp user can implicitly start a gzip and/or tar process.
But then, you've also got some swap space.  Not all of the processes
are active all of the time.

-- 
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. ;-)