Re: Xeon on Linux

2002-05-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 29 May 2002 06:18, Cameron Moore wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Hsieh) [2002.05.28 22:28]: > > How does Linux support Xeon CPU currently? > > I am considering to use dual P-III 1G or single Xeon 2.2G architecture. > > Consider the following pages: > > http://www.intel.com/eBusines

Re: Xeon on Linux

2002-05-29 Thread Cedric Gavage
Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello Glenn Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > I am planing to run MySQL on either dual P3-1G or single Xeon 2.2G. > The main board is smp architecture, therefore I may add another Xeon CPU > in the future. > > I think MySQL has no problem on smp architecture, right? > Just

benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, Is there any utility for http session benchmark? Say, I'd like to emulate 150,000 http sessions to benchmark the firewall or load-balancer, any utility recommended? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Pim Effting
Hello, Apache comes with 'ab'. Which means 'Apache Benchmark'. >From the manpage: "ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache HyperText TransĀ­fer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression on how performant is your current Apache installation. This especially shows you how

MaxClient in apache and debian

2002-05-29 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I'd like to raise the MaxClient to 1500 in the apache on Debian. Am I supposed to rebuild the .deb package? How can I keep the max limit when I use apt-get to upgrade my apache package? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg --

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello "Pim Effting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thanks. I'd not only to test the http request, but also the tcp session. A http request to a html page could couse many tcp session. And I want to test the tcp session limit on the firewall or server load balancer. Basically, a http request could generate

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Pim Effting
Hi, AB is still your friend. You can check remote hosts. Example: I want to check the speed of the company's intranet webpage. I'm going to request the index.php page 1000 times, with 5 concurrent connections. 'ab -n 1000 -c 5 http://192.168.1.200/index.php' It will output connectiondelays (ms)

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Uwe Kueke
Hi > Example: I want to check the speed of the company's intranet webpage. > I'm going to request the index.php page 1000 times, with 5 concurrent > connections. > 'ab -n 1000 -c 5 http://192.168.1.200/index.php' this is quite a good tool. Don't know it before. But, how to protect one server fo

what backup software do you use?

2002-05-29 Thread Bernie Berg
Hi, What do you use for a complete backup and recovery solution? I was looking at mondo, but thought I would ask you guys. thanks for the input. bernie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

woody php4-imap broken?

2002-05-29 Thread Aljandro Borges
Heyas u tough hackers you Okay, im deploying a phpgroupware to about 400 users on top of an old box and debian woody. Phpgw is a very heavy app and the machine is quite small (dual PII-400 Xeon, 1.5 GB) but i guess it will do for now. Of course i didnt go out on a limb and put all 400

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Loren Jordan
At 07:09 PM 5/29/2002 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: >Hello, > >Is there any utility for http session benchmark? Say, I'd like to >emulate 150,000 http sessions to benchmark the firewall or load-balancer, >any utility recommended? httperf on woody, apt-get install httperf This tool is very useful t

Re: what backup software do you use?

2002-05-29 Thread Carlos Barros
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:04:53AM -0500, Bernie Berg wrote: > Hi, > > What do you use for a complete backup and recovery solution? I was looking at >mondo, but thought I would ask you guys. > > thanks for the input. tar without compression. Very standart and very fast to recover from

Re: what backup software do you use?

2002-05-29 Thread Carlos Barros
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:36:26PM -0500, Bernie Berg wrote: > > Other software has issues, like you may need 1 week to > > recover the loss of > > the data. > > > > what about open files (is this an issue?). also is there a standard way to restore >(or do you just use a rescue disk and unt

Re: what backup software do you use?

2002-05-29 Thread Glenn Hocking
Hi Bernie. Used to use a lot of tapes, which requires a lot of handling, tape head cleaning , tape changing and usually requires on site access. These days with big cheap hard drives, I set up on and off site backup boxes and copy the data via network to these backup servers nightly or more i

Re: Xeon on Linux

2002-05-29 Thread Roger Abrahamsson
One thing, I would not go with a Xeon, only if I was planning a quad then perhaps. When you run many concurrent processes, the cache utilization goes down since you do so much context switching. Granted that recent kernels have improved much, but since you still dont have fully associative cache

Re: Xeon on Linux

2002-05-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 29 May 2002 06:18, Cameron Moore wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Hsieh) [2002.05.28 22:28]: > > How does Linux support Xeon CPU currently? > > I am considering to use dual P-III 1G or single Xeon 2.2G architecture. > > Consider the following pages: > > http://www.intel.com/eBusiness

Re: Xeon on Linux

2002-05-29 Thread Cedric Gavage
Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello Glenn Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I am planing to run MySQL on either dual P3-1G or single Xeon 2.2G. The main board is smp architecture, therefore I may add another Xeon CPU in the future. I think MySQL has no problem on smp architecture, right? Just difficult to make t

benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, Is there any utility for http session benchmark? Say, I'd like to emulate 150,000 http sessions to benchmark the firewall or load-balancer, any utility recommended? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Pim Effting
Hello, Apache comes with 'ab'. Which means 'Apache Benchmark'. >From the manpage: "ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache HyperText TransĀ­fer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression on how performant is your current Apache installation. This especially shows you how m

MaxClient in apache and debian

2002-05-29 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I'd like to raise the MaxClient to 1500 in the apache on Debian. Am I supposed to rebuild the .deb package? How can I keep the max limit when I use apt-get to upgrade my apache package? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg -- T

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello "Pim Effting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thanks. I'd not only to test the http request, but also the tcp session. A http request to a html page could couse many tcp session. And I want to test the tcp session limit on the firewall or server load balancer. Basically, a http request could generate 5

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Pim Effting
Hi, AB is still your friend. You can check remote hosts. Example: I want to check the speed of the company's intranet webpage. I'm going to request the index.php page 1000 times, with 5 concurrent connections. 'ab -n 1000 -c 5 http://192.168.1.200/index.php' It will output connectiondelays (ms),

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Uwe Kueke
Hi > Example: I want to check the speed of the company's intranet webpage. > I'm going to request the index.php page 1000 times, with 5 concurrent > connections. > 'ab -n 1000 -c 5 http://192.168.1.200/index.php' this is quite a good tool. Don't know it before. But, how to protect one server for

what backup software do you use?

2002-05-29 Thread Bernie Berg
Hi, What do you use for a complete backup and recovery solution? I was looking at mondo, but thought I would ask you guys. thanks for the input. bernie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

woody php4-imap broken?

2002-05-29 Thread Aljandro Borges
Heyas u tough hackers you Okay, im deploying a phpgroupware to about 400 users on top of an old box and debian woody. Phpgw is a very heavy app and the machine is quite small (dual PII-400 Xeon, 1.5 GB) but i guess it will do for now. Of course i didnt go out on a limb and put all 400 p

Re: benchmark tool for http session

2002-05-29 Thread Loren Jordan
At 07:09 PM 5/29/2002 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello, Is there any utility for http session benchmark? Say, I'd like to emulate 150,000 http sessions to benchmark the firewall or load-balancer, any utility recommended? httperf on woody, apt-get install httperf This tool is very useful to generat

Re: what backup software do you use?

2002-05-29 Thread Carlos Barros
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:04:53AM -0500, Bernie Berg wrote: > Hi, > > What do you use for a complete backup and recovery solution? I was > looking at mondo, but thought I would ask you guys. > > thanks for the input. tar without compression. Very standart and very fast to recover from

Re: what backup software do you use?

2002-05-29 Thread Carlos Barros
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:36:26PM -0500, Bernie Berg wrote: > > Other software has issues, like you may need 1 week to > > recover the loss of > > the data. > > > > what about open files (is this an issue?). also is there a standard way to > restore (or do you just use a rescue disk and unt

Re: what backup software do you use?

2002-05-29 Thread Glenn Hocking
Hi Bernie. Used to use a lot of tapes, which requires a lot of handling, tape head cleaning , tape changing and usually requires on site access. These days with big cheap hard drives, I set up on and off site backup boxes and copy the data via network to these backup servers nightly or more if