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From: Ben Greear <greear@cyberhighway.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:54:36 -0700 (MST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
> A bit back we we discussing the upper limits of Java threads on
> various platforms. Much of the concern, especially in regard to
> Java, was the one thread per connection issue. Can anyone comment on
> the following hardware(?) issue raised here?
>
> --cut from rgma --
>
> By the way, your P2-233 will choke with 200 active users. Interrupt
> overflow from the NIC. You could solve this problem with a $500 NIC
> that doesn't interrupt the CPU as much(has its own processor,) but
> then you'll have to ban char mode telnet outright and do some other
> unfriendly things too, and I just don't know that you're going to find
> 200 simultaneous players anyway; few muds do, so unless you become one
> of them, it isn't worth the time, money, and effort to prepare for:)
I'm not convinced he is right. Perhaps if you are using a sorry driver
and or sorry NIC...
For grins, I'm gonna work on some scripts to max my mud out...
I'll let you know how it goes....
Ben
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