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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:41:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to optimize a FTP/Web Server?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980211103828.1284N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802110557.VAA00717@gromit.pinpt.com>

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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Sean J. Schluntz wrote:

> >1.  More RAM.
> 
> Ok, web has 64 now and FTP has 32.  I've been meaning to up the web to 
> 128 (how fast can you get a web server if you make a 30 meg RAM disk and 
> move all of the web files and cgi scripts to it...  No disk access to 
> slow it down.)

I like an MFS web server :)  The FTP server *will* need more memory; ftp
is much more expensive than web.

> >2.  More disks and controllers and move frequently-used FSs to different
> >    disks on different controllers.
> 
> That's an idea.

And it works, surprisingly :)

> >3.  Faster processor (to a point) or faster bus speed.
> 
> It's on a 166 now, I will probably get a second system and split the load 
> between the two before I get a faster CPU or a second controller.

That would work.  

> >This `big maildrop' had better not be nastygrams.
> 
> Nope, standard snail mail.  We sell a network diagraming, auto discovery 
> and remote control system and the last people we want to tick off are the 
> sysadmins! ;)

Good -- I don't want to be supporting spammers. :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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