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From: Michael T. Babcock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 11:10
To: Victor Pereira; Noonan, Wesley
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Squid and Samba
Don't forget to upgrade your CPU. We had to move a workstation from a P-II
266 to a Duron 850 to get the same responsiveness out of Win2k as we had
from Win98 SE (and bring the RAM to 128M from 64M).
Perhaps. I have had differing experiences. Our 266 servers (128MB RAM) do a
fine job servicing 250 home directories and profile directories or providing
DC, DHCP, WINS and DNS services. They even run great as small remote
exchange servers. It's all in the implementation, in my experience. I have
also found W2K to run circles around Win9x performance wise on anything
bigger than a 233 with 64MB RAM. Move the test to a 350 (or higher) with
128MB of RAM, and it is no contest. Like a heavyweight boxing a
featherweight, Win9x can't hold a candle to W2K.
We've got Linux machines running everything from authentication to file
sharing to proxy services on 128M with Celeron 333's in them (oh, and we
don't bother with monitors on them -- they don't need rebooting).
I know numerous companies who are doing the same with W2K (minus the
monitors of course, though reboots have nothing to do with it). The only
difference is that they would never use a Celeron for a server, due to the
caching requirements typically placed on servers.
What are you running for your desktops? Linux? Unless I read the headers
wrong (X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200), you sent this
using Outlook Express. That doesn't run on Linux does it? I would think it
is a little hypocritical to throw rocks at Microsoft like this... while you
are using Microsoft to send the message, so to speak. :)
Regardless, this seems to be drifting from the topic of "firewalls" so it is
probably best to let it die, or take it to private email.
Cheers.
Wes Noonan, MCSE/MCT/CCNA/NNCSS
Senior QA Rep.
BMC Software, Inc.
(713) 918-2412
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.bmc.com
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