Ours is quite bursty, Sits around only 5-30mb/s normally. But will sometimes hammer the 100Mb/s ethernet port its on for 20minutes to an hour. On 3/18/2011 12:33 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > | I'm setting up a public mirror (ftp only so far) on one of our servers > | and was wondering what kind of bandwidth usage to plan for. We have > | about 100M overall at this site, but I want to make sure that I can > | limit the rate appropriately. I had planned on doing this using the > | ftp > | server's configuration (vsftpd). > | > | Anyone have any notes on a good ballpark figure for maximum number of > | connections and maximum bandwidth per connection? Any horror stories, > | grim warnings or sage advice appreciated. > > I was averaging about 50-100MBps when I initially deployed. When the mirror was in full swing I was saturating my Gigabit switches. It's now been throttled to 20MBps during peak hours if you aren't on CA*Net or Canarie and if you are 50MBps during peak hours. >