From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 29 20:36:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8588437B719 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:36:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14iqak-000240-00; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:32:54 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:32:49 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Chris Cook Cc: Karim Mansur , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adjusting Tunning II In-Reply-To: <3AC3AC81.33A53995@tcworks.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Chris Cook wrote: > Karim Mansur wrote: > > > > I am configuring a FreeBSD 4.2 STABLE to be serving of email with 5000 > > users and server of www with approximately 400 virtual domains. > > It would like sugesttions of parameters to get good performace of schemes. > > One box? That is a very large number of virtual domains for one box > running (I assume) apache. They recommend about 200 virtual hosts max > but of course that depends on the load. I suggest having two seperate > boxes for mail and www. That way if you need to work on one or the > other you do not disrupt both services and the load will be much more > balanced. 200 web hosts per server isn't many. I've seen sites with 2000 per machine, and running with a low load average. E-mail could be an issue depending on volume. > -- > Chris Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message