Re: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> wrote:
>On Wednesday 21 March 2001 06:04, joe golden wrote:
>> I think telnet is not the most elegant at timesharing with this type
>> of load. I'm not sure if it is designed for this (clunky)
>> application. Any tips on optimizing the setup for this scenario?
>
>It's hard to imagine how they could load the box enough to notice
>unless they all decided to run some cpu-intensive task, like compiling
>a large software package, at the same time. I'll bet you can't do
>enough stuff in perl to load the box with only eight users.
You can certainly load a box pretty seriously with Perl if you try
(heavy I/O, for instance), but like I say an introduction is unlikely to
cause a problem. :)
>Get a decent telnet client for the NT boxes. Someone has already
>mentioned TeraTerm.
Or PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/).
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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