Re: ircd hardware requirements

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Jonathan Millett wrote:

> How can I determine what hardware is required to support an ircd server
> with a given maximum number of connections?  Is there a rule of thumb or
> a place I can find more information?

Count a few megs of memory as offset, like 500 bytes/user on the network
you're on, and then a few kbytes per local user.

On a medium Pentium you can handle around 1000 clients or so. There are
fast ppros and pIIs handling over 4000 clients on EFnet currently, I am
not sure about the ircd 2.9 but I am under the impression that it's more
efficient than the ircd 2.8 derivate used on EFnet.

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