Red Hat Report from ISPCON

Donnie Barnes from Red Hat Software dropped us a line to let us know how things are going at ISPCON. Click on the link below to see the full report.

I just wanted to write Slashdot and let the readers know how ISPCON is going. I've put up an introductory web page off of my own home page at http://www.redhat.com/~djb that now includes some pictures I took with my new digital camera. I have pictures of Linux running in the Intel, Compaq, IBM, Corel, and Hallmark booths. I might find some more tommorrow. :-)

As of Tuesday morning, ftp.redhat.com has been running from the ISPCON show floor in the Intel booth. We have a 20Mbs network pipe provided by Intel and a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server. In just 24 hours we've done over 170G of data transferred to the Internet from that single server. The server is a Dual P-II 400 with 1G of RAM. It also has 4x9G Seagate Cheetah LVD drives running Linux software RAID 5 on the embedded Adaptec controller. This machine simply *screams*. We had originally spec'ed two machines, but we now simply use one of them as a backup.

That breaks our own personal record for a 24 period. The previous record for us was 129G during the release of 5.1. But we only had 15Mbs to play with. :-)