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#! rnews 2022 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD suitable as Fileserver OS? Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:45:07 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <31C223B3.338C@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31C1E470.7BBF@blackwhite.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Alexander Kotopoulis wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm considering right now to use FreeBSD for a Fileserver for a network > of about 15 workstations with different UNIXes such as Solaris, HP-UX, > IRIX. The server would have about 15GB disk space and would consist of a > powerful Pentium with fast SCSI and Ethernet hardware. > Can FreeBSD handle such a task? Is the NFS server implementation > reliable and fast enough to drive such a network without failures? How > does FreeBSD perform in comparison to other BSD's, Linux, UNIXware or > Solaris x86? > Thank you for any hint, > I doubt very much if you'll have any problems. Look at the specifications on the system now supporting ftp.freebsd.org. Last time I looked, they were running a 150 MHz P6 Pentium with 512 MB RAM and 72 GB hard drive space on line, and were accepting up to 1200 simultaneous anonymous FTP users. The operating system was FreeBSD 2.1.0-Release. They may have upgraded the OS since, but I think the hardware is the same. This in addition to the fact that this system also serves other domain names (cdrom.com) means that this is one bodaciously busy system. In view of this, I very much doubt that FreeBSD will be the bottleneck in your proposed system. Ken