[761] in linux-net channel archive
Re: timebomb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woods)
Sun Jul 23 16:22:24 1995
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 10:32:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Woods <cjwoods@gigotech.net>
To: "Ed Carp [khijol Sysadmin]" <erc@khijol.intele.net>
cc: Marcus Nilsson <marcus@kuai.se>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9507221114.B11903-0100000@khijol>
On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Ed Carp [khijol Sysadmin] wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Marcus Nilsson wrote:
>
> > We are an Internet Provider that began with Linux 0.99.8, and we have had
> > many crashes since then. However we have stuck with Linux anyway, and
> > 1.2.x was a huge improvement i stability. Now I read in a comp.linux.
[...]
> > Until then, for us, Linux is still a ticking timebomb.
>
> I am running 1.1.95, and have been doing so since March or so. I am not
> an ISP, but have about 150 people who have accounts here, using email,
> irc, etc. I also have a Web server running, and am sitting directly on
> the net via SLIP 24 hours a day.
>
> I have had absolutely no problems running 1.1.95, and am sort of afraid
> to upgrade further. ;) Hope this helps - maybe you oughta back down to a
> pre-1.2 kernel?
Well, I run an ISP with about 4000 customers. We do not sell shell access,
so we do not have the heavy load that many shells will create. However,
we do have a few WWW servers, several POP3/SMTP servers, a RADIUS server,
a PNserver (RealAudio), and an NNTP server running INN 1.4, which has
significant network load on it. It has 3 very large incoming feeds, and
has anywhere from 50 to 75 people reading news from the server via NNTP at
any given time. All our machines are P5-90's (a couple of the lighter-use
machines are 486DX2/66's) running 1.2.10. With about 350 dialup lines, and
all 350 in use sometimes, the net load on our machines (especially mail
server, RADIUS server, news server) is quite significant.
We use SMC Ultra 16's, and have not a single problem. No crashes at all,
no net lag, and no "weird" behavior. We were, at one time, using NE2000
clones, which caused weird lockups frequently (at least 2x per week). As
soon as we went with the SMC cards, our problems went away.
Have been running 1.2.x kernels for some time now, and have not had any
problems whasoever.
Chris Woods cjwoods@gigotech.net
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