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Subject: Re: tablebase availability update LOL@HYATT

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:18:41 04/26/00

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On April 26, 2000 at 12:09:56, Tom Likens wrote:

>On April 25, 2000 at 23:53:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 25, 2000 at 23:45:29, robert michelena wrote:
>>
>>>LOL.  Too much. lol  "to all morons..."
>>
>>
>>Just so you know... our campus ftp machine in CIS (the one I am responsible
>>for) has really attracted the attention of our campus network folks.  :)
>>
>>They have noticed the following:
>>
>>(1) we are sustaining about 70mbits/second 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, non-
>>stop (downloads going out of the department).  The majority of this is the
>>databases.
>>
>>(2) they used to could tell when Eugene would upload a new set of 5 piece
>>files, as they would see a big spike in net usage.  The spike has been
>>smoothed out to a continual 70mbits/sec now, it seems.  We are averaging about
>>40 ftp users non-stop, many sucking up the 6 piece files, which is amazing.
>>
>>(3) we have a campus traffic monitor, and it consistently has
>>juniper.cis.uab.edu at the very top of the list traffic-wise, this in a
>
>Sounds like you guys need to upgrade to an Avici TSR (Terabit Switch Router)
>and get rid of that Juniper box!!
>
>DISCLAIMER: And yep, I do work for Avici, as an ASIC analog designer :)
>


Juniper is our ftp server, our usenet news server, and is a pentium pro 200mhz
box running linux.  70 mbits/second is not bad for a 100mbit/second ethernet
card that is old (ie half duplex).

it is being replaced by a dual PIII box hopefully next week...



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