Re: hubs and load

[Francesco Messineo <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Hanno Foest wrote:

> On Wednesday, Mar 28 2001 at 23:12:36 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> > > > It really depends on your hardware and OS.
> > > 
> > > 686 CPU, 256 MB RAM, Linux 2.4.1
> > 
> > The problem is going to be the OS.  Most big client servers run
> > something else then Linux.
> 
> Does Linux still give ircd problems? I know that using Linux for a
> heavily loaded irc server was deprecated for a long time because
> its IP stack wasn't very mature, but I thought that these issues
> (broken poll() etc.) had been solved since about two years now.
> 
> Although I'm only running a fairly small server (~100 users) in a
> small network myself, I'm interested what the recommended OS would
> be to have ircd running smoothly even under extreme loads. And what
> are the remaining issues with Linux?
> 

here in .it we are running ircds under linux with ~3K clients on the
biggest servers.

> Just curious, really.
> 
> Hanno
> 

Regards

Francesco