On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> > Is anyone running qmail on a FreeBSD or Linux PC with that kind of
> > load?
>
> Probably, although it wouldn't be a single box, and probably not running a
> free Unix.
Why not?
> The congressional stuff runs on, I think, 8 (was that 18?) Exchange boxes.
Hmm - MS's ftp site runs on 40 NT boxes, and - at the release for
Win98, I believe - set the record for number of bytes shipped per
day. It was surpassed a few months later by cdrom.com, running on a
single 200MHz FreeBSD box.
With that as a guideline, I'd expect a single FreeBSD box to be able
to handle the load of 8 Exchange boxes.
<mike
