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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <48ojd9$je3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48enj9$98j@interport.net> <48kitk$l06@uriah.heep.sax.de> <48nlpl$1tp@interport.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 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. ;-)