dave@well.UUCP (Dave Hughes) (12/10/88)
I am looking for some good guesses. If you were to pluck out of the air the number of 1200 baud modem-connected users a 16mhz 386 running Sco Xenix 386 with 28mls disk drives and intelligent com boards (I am using Computone presently) would support satisfactorily, what would you say? 16,24,32? Users only readng/writing to disk running either e-mail, foxbase like data base programs, conferencing software. No development work or compiling. I am just trying to get a couple judgements as to just about where would a 16mhz 386 begin to degrade from such uses. (I would guess about 6 users on a similar 286) Dave Hughes hplabs!well!dave hplabs!p-lsd!winfree!chariot!dave
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (12/12/88)
In article <7891@well.UUCP>, dave@well.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes: > > I am looking for some good guesses. If you were to pluck out of > the air the number of 1200 baud modem-connected users a 16mhz > 386 running Sco Xenix 386 with 28mls disk drives and intelligent > com boards (I am using Computone presently) would support > satisfactorily, what would you say? 16,24,32? > Users only readng/writing to disk running either e-mail, foxbase > like data base programs, conferencing software. No development > work or compiling. You have described a very lightly-loaded environment. It should support at least 24-32 users, and probably more. Make sure that you have enough memory to support them. Figure about 512k for a foxbase session, less for mail and conferencing. Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc.