[K12OSN] Max concurrent users

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Wed Mar 31 01:29:57 UTC 2004


On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Chris Thomas wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>My site has 3.0.2 on a Duron 900 with 1gb of memory
>and it can handle a max of about 12 concurrent users
>at once. We also have a P4 1.7 with 1.5gb of ram and
>it can only handle 15-17 concurrent users. Is this on
>the low side? I'm wondering how my boxes compare to
>everyone else. What seems to be the max concurrent
>users you guys can handle with your hardware?

Is your /home directory on a IDE drive?

>From my testing, I've seen fast servers grind to a halt
with a dozen concurrent users on a IDE drive. Replacing the
IDE with a "slower" SCSI drive ran fine with 30 concurrent
users.

-Eric





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