[737] in Zephyr_Bugs
Re: Catch-22?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jan 9 02:32:34 1996
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:32:26 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Brian McEntire <mcentire@sdd.comsat.com>
Cc: bug-zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[736] in Zephyr_Bugs"
> But then I found a mention in the file OPERATING, included in the
> zephyr distribution, (quoted below) which says zephyr will take up
> substancial resources on the server... can you be more specific
> about what a "fair amount of CPU..." is? Would my attempt to install
> zephyr to notify users really just compound the limited resources
> problem?
For 20-30 people, the zephyr server will probably use a negligible
amount of CPU. It may use a little more memory than it has to, but
probably not more than a megabyte or so.
At MIT, we're used to a thousand people using the Zephyr servers at
any one time, but a single Sparcstation 20 can still handle the load
with the CPU 95% idle. (We actually have two dedicated servers, but
for fault tolerance purposes more than load handling.) The main
problem we have is memory use for storing unacknowledged packets.
> P.S.- Has anyone run it on LINUX with XFree yet? Possibly I could
> dedicate an old 486 to being a Zephyr server.
Yes, and you don't need X support on the server, of course.
