On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
>
> > > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've had great results with the Tyan 1836DLUAN/Thunder 100's.
> > > > I've got several boxes with 1GB of RAM and dual 450's humming along. For
> > > > comparison one system with less memory and a SuperMicro board but identical
> > > > system software has had a couple of wierd spontaneous reboots over the last
> > > > few months.
> > >
> > > Cool... Is 1GB of ram really needed? We used to run a 64 meg
> > > system then 128 meg and then 384 meg, it doesn't seem to do much even for
> > > a heavily loaded ISP Server.
> >
> > Not really. The customer whose box this is chose this much memory
> > because his previous server was a 256MB UltraSparc that was swamped all the
> > time with a load of 6 to 7.
> >
> > The real problem was poor CGI programming. I made them fix them.
> > Now it toodles along with ridiculously low loads. All the websites and the
> > mysql db fit in core. ;-)
>
> That's true too.... Seems like FreeBSD can handle a real high load
> without problems...
If you can believe it they drove the system load up to 114 with
their horrible Perl CGI's. Ammazingly, I could type "sudo apachectl stop"
and wait 30 seconds or so for it to run. 114 and I didn't need to reboot
the system. I was pleasantly surprised.
Adrian
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