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- From: pushp@nic.cerf.net (Pushpendra Mohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.large,comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Suggestions sought for a Unix Box to support a large user base
- Message-ID: <2628@news.cerf.net>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 19:46:57 GMT
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- I am trying to help a university in Brazil that has just come on line
- on the Internet.
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- Say, they had a user base of 2000 users of which no more than 100-150
- were active at any given time.
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- And users did mostly intercative work, News and mail and occasional
- file transfers using ftp etc .
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- No graphics or software development or other CPU intensive
- work on the machine.
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- I understand that this is a very vague question, but what is the
- minimal unix machine they should be looking to buy with "reasonable"
- response?
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- If they were stuck on Sun Microsystems, what model should they be
- looking at ?
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- Would they be better of in investing in many smaller machines rather
- than a large one ? I suspect the answer is yes, but mainframe
- technology is still too ingrained there ..
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- They currently have a Sparc II. What changes can they make to their
- Sparc II kernel to performance tune it for this kind of use for about 50
- simultaneous users ?
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- Email replies will be appreciated.
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