Re: Best Linux/webcat config??

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texte = Grant suggested that multiple CPU's should help, but he was unable to quantifyit. At today's prices, don't bother with a quad, but dual can be reasonable,both price and performance wise. Be aware that there is still code out therethat is not SMP safe; be sure you test everything you plan on running very wellbefore you go live. The very good HTTP caching software I have been using forsome time goes deaf when run on an SMP machine.RAID 5 is typically slightly slower than a standard HD, rather than faster(because it has to write the checksum). Fastest performance is obtained usingRAID 0 in data-stripe mode; some controllers will support hardware mirroring inaddition, which can act as your backup. Buy lots of cache for the RAIDcontroller and you will perceive your drives to be MUCH faster. You may want toget 10,000 RPM drives (IBM and others) and a really good SCSI-3 card; blow yourbudget on the drive subsystem and you will almost never go wrong!Having more RAM than your database sizes is not going to buy you any speedeither; as long as you have enough RAM to load all of your databases, as well asall of your executables, then the O/S will have no need to swap. Make sure thatthe motherboard supports multiple upgrade options; it is no good if you buy a128MB motherboard with two slots filled with 2-64MB DIMMS. Better to buy1-128MB DIMM now and leave a slot free for later. RAM prices are down ~40%since January according to recent numbers in InfoWorld.Lastly, remember that a even a 486 can easily saturate a T-1, so price out yourupstream link appropriately. I am going to try and work up some bids to co-hosta server upstream someplace and store my graphic files there, and only serve upthe active pages from my main server. I currently do that now, but both serversare on the same T-1 currently.HTHJohn Peacock____________________Reply Separator____________________Subject: Best Linux/webcat config?? Author: (WebCatalog Talk)Date: 4/25/2000 2:21 PMHi all, We are configuring a Linux server to be used forWebCat 3.08. and would like feedback on system specs.- (almost) all pages will pass thru WebCat.- typical page size is 35K- Traffic 5 - 40 GB per monthOne thought is to make it a FAST server- 750 Mhz CPU (will dual CPU's help?)- SCSI RAID (at least mirrors) will we notice much difference with RAID level 5 ?- RAM 128Meg (min) WebCat loves RAM, how do we calc the requirements?We also don't mind taking a SWAG, and then measuring tosee what tuning we need.What tools would anyone suggest for tuning.TIA-John-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

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Grant suggested that multiple CPU's should help, but he was unable to quantifyit. At today's prices, don't bother with a quad, but dual can be reasonable,both price and performance wise. Be aware that there is still code out therethat is not SMP safe; be sure you test everything you plan on running very wellbefore you go live. The very good HTTP caching software I have been using forsome time goes deaf when run on an SMP machine.RAID 5 is typically slightly slower than a standard HD, rather than faster(because it has to write the checksum). Fastest performance is obtained usingRAID 0 in data-stripe mode; some controllers will support hardware mirroring inaddition, which can act as your backup. Buy lots of cache for the RAIDcontroller and you will perceive your drives to be MUCH faster. You may want toget 10,000 RPM drives (IBM and others) and a really good SCSI-3 card; blow yourbudget on the drive subsystem and you will almost never go wrong!Having more RAM than your database sizes is not going to buy you any speedeither; as long as you have enough RAM to load all of your databases, as well asall of your executables, then the O/S will have no need to swap. Make sure thatthe motherboard supports multiple upgrade options; it is no good if you buy a128MB motherboard with two slots filled with 2-64MB DIMMS. Better to buy1-128MB DIMM now and leave a slot free for later. RAM prices are down ~40%since January according to recent numbers in InfoWorld.Lastly, remember that a even a 486 can easily saturate a T-1, so price out yourupstream link appropriately. I am going to try and work up some bids to co-hosta server upstream someplace and store my graphic files there, and only serve upthe active pages from my main server. I currently do that now, but both serversare on the same T-1 currently.HTHJohn Peacock____________________Reply Separator____________________Subject: Best Linux/webcat config?? Author: (WebCatalog Talk)Date: 4/25/2000 2:21 PMHi all, We are configuring a Linux server to be used forWebCat 3.08. and would like feedback on system specs.- (almost) all pages will pass thru WebCat.- typical page size is 35K- Traffic 5 - 40 GB per monthOne thought is to make it a FAST server- 750 Mhz CPU (will dual CPU's help?)- SCSI RAID (at least mirrors) will we notice much difference with RAID level 5 ?- RAM 128Meg (min) WebCat loves RAM, how do we calc the requirements?We also don't mind taking a SWAG, and then measuring tosee what tuning we need.What tools would anyone suggest for tuning.TIA-John-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to jpeacock@univpress.com

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