[svlug] how many servers?

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:22:03PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> A question that often comes up: "How many Linux boxes does Google run on?"
> I've heard numbers ranging from 3,500 to 85,000. This reference [1] says 
> 250,000. Anybody have a better ballpark figure?

See

http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Google-How_It_Works

Warning: that's not an authoritative article, nor is it current, but
it should give you a qualitative answer.