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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: max. # of users possible
Message-ID: <1990Mar22.202224.10688@siia.mv.com>
Date: 22 Mar 90 20:22:24 GMT
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Organization: Software Innovations, Inc.
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uunet!mailrus!umich!itivax!m-net!mml@cbmvax.uucp (Mark Lacey) writes:

>Hi!  I just ordered MINIX from P-H and I have a few questions about it.  My
>main question has to do with having multiple users.  How many users could
>be supported without a very large drop in performance?

I think the single-threading in the filesystem is the biggest
bottleneck for multiple users.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company (sm)]
drd@siia.mv.com -or- uunet!siia!drd