From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 14 08:09:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15918 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 08:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15899 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 08:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id JAA16208; Thu, 14 May 1998 09:09:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA28758; Thu, 14 May 1998 09:05:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 09:05:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: Shawn Ramsey cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how many virtual www server on a 2.2.6 PPro machine ? In-Reply-To: <19980514015212.37909@cpl.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, 14 May 1998, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 09:13:41AM +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 13 May 1998, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > > > > What do you think, if I want to put as many virtual webservers > > > as possible onto one FreeBSD (2.2.6) Machine (PPro 200, 128 MB) > > > ... how many would that be ? > > > > Oh, I forgot to say that my machine with >300 VWS is a Pentium 133 with 64 > > MB RAM, taking about 5 million hits/month (bursts to about 15/second). > > The disks are plain SCSI-2, and no-one complains that it is slow, but I'm > > in the process of upgrading it to a 686-PR233 just to get a bit more > > headroom. It generally has about 10-15 MB disk cache, as shown by 'top'. > > > > A PPro200 with 128 MB RAM should be able to serve 20-30 million > > hits/month no sweat. > > Couldn't a PPro handle this in a day, assuming the majority are HTML hits? I don't know what you mean by "HTML hits", but if the majority is reasonably small static content, then sure. You would want more RAM though to take it to probably 512. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message