Re: [Circle] Re: ram requirements

From: Ron Hensley (ron@cross.dmv.com)
Date: 11/16/96


>   Heres an example of what changes can do though... Duris, extremely 
> tight code, mem management optimized with in-line asm, uses ~40 megs ram, 
> 30% of our T-1's bandwidth, and ~150 meg disk counting our player database.
> Compiles and testports are beginning to push the limit, so we've upgraded 
> the box to 128 meg ram running on a dual p166 board. Ouch. 

Jesus..... What mud is this? How many people are usually logged in? How
many areas? 40 megs? 30% of a T1 for simple telnet connections?
Thats like 450kbits per second of in/output. Hell of a lot for a simple
mud doing nothing but text streams to telnet connections dont you think?

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