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- From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.003407.75890@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:34:07 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.174008.23663@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:
- :
- : Is it realistic to support about 5,000 logins with a 386 Unix?
- : There will be no more than 32 logins active at any time, but what
- : about the time it takes to look up the password during login?
-
- Well, it depends. How fast is the 386 ? How much memory does it
- have ? Another very important consideration: what kind of hard
- drive does it use, and does the controller have caching capabilities ?
-
- Then you'll need to ask, what kind of applications these 32-users
- will run ? (light, mainly reading mail; medium, lots of text
- processing and newsgroups; heavy, everyone uses EMACS and
- compiles large programs all the time; superweight, everyone
- runs X on the machine... etc)
-
- I guess what it comes down to: reading the password files may
- not be that hard for 5000 users. Supporting the 32 on-line
- users may be the problem, depending on the configuration and
- load profile.
-
- Another biggie to think about is what kind of performance
- your users will tolerate. I remember at a public access site
- (nyx at Denver University) the old Pyramid would crawl almost
- to a halt, but since it was the only internet machine available
- to many, it was 'tolerable' to nyx users. Now they're running
- a SparcServer.
-
- Regards,
-
- -Ade.
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