From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 3 16:02:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA22031 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:02:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from vex.net (shell.vex.net [207.107.242.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA22026 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:02:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from vex.net(really [207.107.242.162]) by vex.net via sendmail with smtp id for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:58:23 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.90 1996-Dec-4 #3 built 1996-Dec-12) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:58:23 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Jacob Suter cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth.. In-Reply-To: <199612302010.OAA22944@intrastar.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Jacob Suter wrote: > > Oh geez no.. I put my current web server (AMD 5x86/133 w/ 32 megs > ram) to the test.. 16,000 hits in 12 hours and it wasn't even really > stressed. I benchmarked a 486DX4/100 with 16MB running Apache 0.65 on FreeBSD 2.0.5 (I think it was) in 1995 and it was able to sustain over 800,000 hits in a 24-hour period. This was with a large (50MB) document mix, fetched from an SGI NFS server. Interactive performance on the console was horrible, but response times to HTTP requests were still quite good. A properly equipped P133 running recent software should be able to service several million requests a day without falling over. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"