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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: IRC request
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 96 16:15:57
- Organization: Private node.
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- Rask Lambertsen (c948374@oersted.gbar.dtu.dk) wrote:
- : On 29 Feb 1996 21:47:01 GMT Heikki Kantola (hkantola@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
- : > And secondly IMHO there's quite enough IRC servers
- : > around already...
- :
- : ??? They seem to be overloaded. More servers would make it possible to
- : distribute the load.
-
- Wrong. Pretty much all data has to pass through all servers, so adding more
- servers barely reduces the load on each one. Add to this the fact that more
- servers = more links, and you will see that the total bandwidth requirements
- are _increased_ the more servers you have.
-
- IRC does not need more servers; it needs larger ones with faster links.
-
- -- Mat.
-