Hi,
Our performance constrained PPC Linux server runs mail, spam filtering, web proxy, file sharing for both Macs and Windows, light web serving, client backup, and is a rpm repository for YDL, FC2 & 3. It is connected via 100baseT to a 1000baseT backbone. A 300 MHz 604 9600 was not up to the task, there is no way a 68k Mac could handle the load.
What kind of constraints did you see? I have a 400 MHz 604ev PowerMac 9600 which has pushed 40 - 50 Mbps of web and ftp while running lots of other services, such as DNS, email, rsync, and others. During a recent DDoS, it was completely responsive while dealing with 90 - 100 Mbps of incoming traffic (which was largely ICMP; a DDoS a while ago, before some tuning and upgrades like hardware checksumming on the ethernet card, showed it could only handle about 40,000 SYN packets a second before becoming overwhelmed).
Of course, when it comes to high speed local networking, I prefer Mac OS X or NetBSD on more modern hardware, but the 9600 has been absolutely stable for 1/2 a year. My 1.4 GHz colo'd G4 can (and has) pushed 100 Mbps of web and ftp and still has had plenty of CPU left.
Our firewall/DNS server/mail gateway was a 200 MHz 604 with 128 MB of RAM, and it got bogged down. It is now a 300 MHz 604 with 304 MB of RAM, again no way for a 68k Mac to handle the load.
What part of it got bogged down? I used to run 300 domains, some heavily used sites which were PHP, DNS and email (more than 100,000 attempted deliveries a day), plus many shell accounts on a 66 MHz m68060 Amiga. DNS isn't a heavy CPU hog, nor is firewalling unless you're trying to handle multiple 10s of Mbps. What kind of email system were you running?
But this isn't a home environment with a couple of users.
No, doesn't sound like it. I'm always interested in hearing about how other people make use of their systems, and the limits that they see.
John
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