Subject: Re: Relative impact of imap/pc clients vs telnet/pine sessions

From: Mike Roch <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 15:32:03 +0000

On Mon, 7 Nov 1994, Mike Roch wrote:
> Take a multiuser machine, say a Sun 4/370. If it can support N pc users 
> who telnet in and run a continuous pine session, it can presumably 
> support M x N pc users were they all to adopt an IMAP based PC mua. Any 
> guesses on the value of M? (We get N up to 40 or so on the model suggested).

I got no substantive responses, but yesterday we got a complete NFS lockup
between our (Solaris) SPARCcenter and (SunOS) Auspex fileserver which holds
the mail spool. We switched Pine's access method to IMAP onto a modest Sun
which can support ~15-20 telnet/pine sessions. We happily supported 56
imap connections, which slowed, but did not kill this host. 
	=> M ~ 3
	Q.E.D.

Mike