Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]