Subject: Performance issues with Intel hardware
From: Jay Pfaffman (pfaffman@relax.ltc.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Date: Tue Aug 06 1996 - 14:34:37 EDT
I'm considering setting up a high-end Pentium with 128MB of RAM
running Linux, Apache HTTPD, and SMB to support ~400 college freshmen.
They'll mostly be using the machine as a file server with some HTTP
traffic. I don't anticipate more than 40 simultaneous file-sharing users.
I've been running Linux for years for myself, a handful of mailing
lists, and a rarely-used web server, but don't know how performance
will scale up.
Will a 166Mhz Pentium with 128MB of RAM and a fast hard drive do the
job? Should I go for dual processors? More RAM? Is 128MB overkill?
Jay Pfaffman pfaffman@relax.com
+1-615-343-1720 (office) +1-615-460-9299 (home)
http://relax.ltc.vanderbilt.edu/~pfaffman/
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