Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:12:35 -0800 (PST) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903252307110.8166-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903260033490.13895-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Steve Price wrote: > I certainly never said that, though I do believe that FreeBSD is > more stable than Linux for a variety of other reasons. :) Of course, > you know that arguing the stability of Linux vs. FreeBSD on a FreeBSD > won't necessarily always get unbiased remarks in response. I'm trying to avoid an OS war, mostly because everyone'll yell at me (and I'm not exactly on home turf here :-)) However, I've used a fair number of operating systems, and Linux really does appear to have a more rapid learning curve. There's so much more available documentation out there for Linux... > # I want to run a webserver that's going to probably be serving about 400 > # requests simultaneously on average, but it may spike up to 900 at times. > # Bandwidth-wise, it'll be moving about 600+k/sec on a PII-450 w/384 megs > # RAM. There'll be a lot of CGI involved, as well as a MySQL database that's > # being used for authentication as well as keeping track of a bunch of user > # accounting data. I tried FreeBSD initially, but it didn't last 10 minutes > # before coming down. > # > # I searched on the web and checked links from the FreeBSD homepage, as well > # as a couple other FreeBSD related pages that I found, but found no > # information on tuning FreeBSD machines. The HOWTOs for FreeBSD are > # minimal. There aren't many users out there with easily accessible > # information on what they've done to make it work. > # > # What do I need to do to make it work? Increase the number of tasks? Can I > # just use ulimit, or do I need to change stuff in the kernel? I noticed > # some stuff in there limiting the per-user tasks to 64, but that didn't > # look reasonable, and it looked like it got ignored anyway, so I don't know > # what bearing that had on the system. How can I increase the maximum > # number of file descriptors/inodes? Are there any changes I should make to > # the memory management stuff, and if so where and how? What else needs to > # be done to a FreeBSD machine to allow it to handle heavy load? > > I can look around and see if I can drum up these answers. But if you > don't mind I'd like to forward these questions to the -isp list too > to see if someone with more knowledge than myself can help out. Is that > ok? Hey, go ahead. I'd love to know the answers to those questions. I administer a lot of high-bandwidth machines, and anything I can do to make them work smoother is in my best interest. I'm not afraid of change, I'm just afraid of unprepared, unresearched, undocumented, unsupported change :> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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