How big is a VAX 8600 running Ultrix?

[Jim Webb]

> I'm working with some folks who have about 2600 users spread across
> six ancient PDP 11/70s running various flavors of obsolete Unix kernels.
> 
> My question is this: is it even conceivable that this user base could
> be squeezed onto a single VAX 8600 running Ultrix?
> 
> (By-the-way, I forgot to mention that out of these 2600 users, only about
> 100 are signed on at any one time.)
> 

	This reply is coming from a VAX 8600 running System V Release 2.
Right now, there are, let me check, 74 people logged in running mostly
vi's, ed's, troff's and nroff's.  We have about 400 accounts on the machine
and anticipate adding about 200 more before we upgrade to an 8650.  I don't
think any one machine could handle 2600 accounts unless these users do
not use any disk space.  I am already on my 5th ra81 with 400.  I know I
should be hawking 3B20's, but this machine is __FAST__
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Jim Webb                                        ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw