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FreeBSD sets new 1-day download record
HerbieTMac writes "Congrats to FreeBSD for a new single day download record. Two terabytes (that's 2 trillion bytes!) from a single machine (ftp.freesoftware.com). This was brought about by the simultaneous release of RedHat 7 and FreeBSD 4.1.1."
No it's not an SMP machine...
Here is some of the information from the config.txt file on the server:
"Since so many people ask us about the configuration of wcarchive, here's the
scoop:
wcarchive.cdrom.com is an Intel architecture PC machine running the FreeBSD
operating system.
Its configuration is as follows:
Micron NetFRAME 9201 system, consisting of:
One 500MHz Intel Pentium-III Xeon CPU w/512K L2 cache
4GB of main memory (16 * 256MB 50ns ECC EDO DIMMs)
1 Adaptec AHA-2940U2W PCI single-channel wide Ultra-2 SCSI controller
2 Adaptec AHA-3940AUW PCI dual-channel wide UltraSCSI controller
1 Intel Pro/100+ PCI 100Mbps Fast Ethernet controller
1 Bay Networks Netgear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet adapter"
cheers.
What?!?! SysV is a descendant of BSD, and didn't come about until years after DARPA had chosen BSD.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
I have a terabyte sitting near my desk. It's about the size of a PC - maybe a bit bigger. It's tiny! Anyone want to take bets on when it will fit into something the size of a compact flash?
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Don't get me wrong, I live FreeBSD and run it on my own server, and couldn't be happier. However I would be interested to hear some good aguments on why Win2k couldn't handle this load.
From what I understand Win2k makes a really freakin good file serv. Other then the TCP/IP stack and the FTP server (prob Wu-FTP) shouldn't Win2k be able to handle the same load? From what I've seen Win2k TCP/IP stack is actually superiour to BSD's. It's supports far more sophisticed featurs like IO Completion Ports, 3 differnt types of Async IO, Thread Pooling and is fully SMP to at least 8 (DataServer can support something like 64) proccecors.
So other then "It's buggy, It'll crash" what other evedence is there?
-Jon
this is my sig.
Whoa.
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Don't start doing what the hard drive manufacturers started doing. When we are talking about small values, it does not really matter. At these levels it can mean a big difference.
2 terabytes = 2199023255552 bytes
To find out how much you are off:
2199023255552 - 2000000000000 = 199023255552 bytes
This is 185.35 GB which is a lot of data just in itself.
"This should be a good example for Linux"
"Linux has had this support in some alpha form since 2.2.1182-preac8-test1.1"
And so on.
And by the way, Terasolutions obviously supports FreeBSD; it was co-founded by a FreeBSD cofounder and core team member :)
-bugg
why the hell didn't this make the front page? I wonder how many other relevant stories we never see (why yes, i dont have any story blocked in my pref's).
:)
I'm glad to see someone is wasting just as much B/W as cdrom.com
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ftp.cdrom.com:
Xeon/500, 4GB memory, 1/2 terabyte RAID 5, FreeBSD, 100 MB colocation by Applied Theory.
ftp.freesoftware.com:
Xeon/550, 4GB memory, 400 GB RAID 5, FreeBSD, 1GB colocation by Lightning Internet.
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
Keep in mind that this is a single machine with a single processor. This is not a load-balanced set of servers. I am truly impressed with FreeBSD as a server OS. I have yet to see an NT server perform such a feat. This is probably the reason Hotmail has not been moved onto an NT server. I am a linux user and a loyal one too. However, I think most of us who use linux should not forget the contributions the BSD's have made to UNIX as a whole.
The University of California, Berkeley used Unix as a research system. It also had a DARPA grant to develop and implement the Arpanet protocols, which became TCP/IP. Companies such as Cisco, Frontier, NetManage, and others based their initial products on implementations of Berkeley TCP/IP.
Many features we nowadays take for granted were introduced on BSD and only later adopted by AT&T and other vendors: the vi screen editor, the termcap terminal capability database and the curses screen manipulation library, csh, job control, long file names, symbolic links, TCP/IP networking, the socket interface, various r* utilities, etc...
Keep in mind also, the BSD crowd and the linux crowd have similar goals and aspirations. We both like our respective OS's because they are free and open. We both like our OS's because they are both UNIX, whether the Open Group allows you to call it that or not. Both groups know that either a demon or a penguin can break windows with no trouble at all. Sure, there is the BSD vs. SysV argument and others, but who cares. We are on the same side and we should be learning from eachother instead of starting a flamefest. If you see an honest, educated post about why someone prefers BSD to Linux or vice versa, you should respect their opinion and try to understand why (some feature here) is important in their world view. I am personally looking forward to getting an extra box so I can start learning more about the BSD's.
cheers.
Despite having slowed in recent years, the US national debt is still several trillion dollars.
Do you know how much a trillion dollars is? It's so much, that if you stacked it up using $20 bills, the stack would probably fall over.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
...of course we know if Voyager was powered by BSD it would have never gotten lost ;)
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