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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hubbard's article in BYTE Date: 15 Dec 1995 10:19:01 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4ari2l$ipe@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4aqced$alc@interport.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4aqced$alc@interport.net>, David Tay <davidtay@interport.net> wrote: >Loved the article in FreeBSD. Very well written. <asskissing end> Thanks - and no kisses necessary! I did it just to spread the word a little wider and, if others would like to join this emerging trend by mobbing other magazines with FreeBSD article submissions, I would not mind at all! For the first person to get into Dr. Dobbs or PC Magazine, in fact, my own lips are puckered and waiting. :-) >I do have one question, though. In the article, you said that one should >add 16mb of RAM for every 10 simultaenous FTP sessions. If that's true, >then how does ftp.cdrom.com squeeze 400 users into an 128mb machine? Unfortunately, I didn't say this. My editor did. :-( They also made up the interesting new term of "ISP Pentium", which made my hair stand straight up when I saw it. :( Perhaps DELL will play ball by actually making one now and I won't have to feel so bad! :) What I originally said was that for every 10 *interactive users* you should consider having 16MB of memory, with the assumption being that said users will be running emacs, reading mail and newsgroups, compiling versions of "crack", so on and so forth. Then in another paragraph I talked about configuring your machine for FTP users. In editing down my 3000 words to 1900, they managed to smash the two concepts together and ended up suggesting that one needed to spend the equivalent of Bolivia's gross national product just to get a couple of hundred FTP users! Ah well, at least they didn't do the opposite and suggest that you could get 400 users into 16MB of memory - that would have been *really* bad! :-) In retrospect, the fault was mine. I didn't leave enough time to get changes incorporated back into the galleys I received. I sent back the changes, but they didn't have enough time to get them in, evidently. Live and learn! Thanks for the kind plug, anyway! :) Jordan