FilePro running on Unix vs Windows

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:32:15PM -0500, Transpower wrote:
> Cindy Youngman wrote on 12/16/2004, 3:14 PM:
>  > RWS wrote:
>  > >But, really, would there be 250 users simultaneously accessing
>  > >filePro--or >250 potential users, with 80 active at one time?  Or what?
>  >
>  > Yes we will have 250 users accessing filePro simultaneously.  We
>  > currently run idleout at 10 minutes and still get calls from users
>  > getting errors "Too Many Users"
> 
> Wow, OK.  Then I'd be inclined to use a 16-way Xeon server, such as one 
> of the IBM eServer 440 models.  These run $80000 and up (at least the 
> last time I checked; maybe they're a lot less now).

Or, you could comfortably put that many telnet sessions into Linux
filepro on the Dell PowerEdge 2600 I just deployed for a client.

Dual Xeon 3.06HT's, 2GB ECC RAM, mirrored 73GB SCSI-320 10K drives.

$2700

In my load testing, I had a standing load average of 6.8 or better, and
the degradation of my KDE desktop was unnoticeable.

With 9 complete KDE stacks running on that machine right now behind
persistant Xvnc servers, it has 709 processes running, a load average
of 2.2, and free(1m) looks like this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2068376    2015988      52388          0      73748     574128
-/+ buffers/cache:    1368112     700264
Swap:      2096472      76564    2019908

It is a fire breathing dragon, with SuSE 9.0 on it.  We haven't been
able to slow it down.

Oh: use DLT or Ultrium to back it up.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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