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- Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
- Message-ID: <930111.113251.EST.VALDIS@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.relusr-l
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:32:51 EST
- Sender: Relay Users Forum <RELUSR-L@NCSUVM.BITNET>
- From: Valdis Kletnieks <VALDIS@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Another Question...
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon,
- 11 Jan 1993 10:07:17 EST from <RJACOBS@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
- Lines: 32
-
- On Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:07:17 EST Rich Jacobs said:
- > Hi everyone. It's another week and time for another question.. *smile*
- >
- > What is the maximum amount of general users that are allowed on relay? I
- >have noticed that when relay has approximately 115 or more users, it becomes
- >difficult to sign on because relay is full.
-
- Well, this is a difficult question to answer. The maximum total number
- of users allowed on RELAY at one time is 211(*). However, there is
- *also* a "maximum number of users *per server*". This number is by
- default 12, but can be as high as 20 or more, and is set on a per-server
- basis. Thus, the maximum number of users on is mathematically:
-
- min(211,(sum from i=1 to num_connected_servers max_user(server_i)))
-
- Basically, add up the max_user value for all connected relays, and take
- that or 211, whichever is less...
-
- What you're seeing is that when there are 115 or so users on, that also
- correllates to *your* relay being full. At certain times of the day, it
- is not unusual for 5 or 6 of the relays to account for 75% or more of
- the users on, even when there are 30+ relays connected. When cornellc
- and vtvm2 both have 20 users on, and uiucvmd and ndsuvm1 and yalevm each
- have 15, that's 75 users right there. You can see how things get pretty
- crowded pretty quickly. And of course, the 5 or 6 servers that account
- for all the people are (not surprisingly) also the 5 or 6 servers that
- are (a) full and (b) turning people away.
-
- /Valdis
-
- P.S. The value of '211' was chosen mostly because it was a convenient
- number to input into the hashing function used by RELAY.
-