Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:09:27 -0600 From: "Jacob Suter" <jsuter@intrastar.net> To: "dennis" <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: <isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bandwidth.. Message-ID: <199612302010.OAA22944@intrastar.net>
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> >The 386 handled 7,500 hits/day (one of my users decided to put up a porn > >site) for about a week without too much trouble. I'd never want to try to > >make it do it again though :-) > > I think that <6 hits per minute is not a major task for any processor... > surely you cant be implying that you need a pentium for that kind of volume? 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. > The problem here probably has more to do with your $9. ISA IDE > controller than it does the '386 vs Pentium. A (slow) '486 with a PCI IDE > controller not only has more processor power, but also much higher > bus throughput to the disk. Yeah... When I put the 386 into web server duty I had already purchased a nice fast ISA IDE controller (I was using this machine as my workstation before). The 386 was a VAST improvement over the 486DX4-120 running NT that I was using before. The web pages were at least 3x faster to load off the 386 running FreeBSD and apache... I instantly fell in love with unix and within a month I had learned enough to dump NT completly (the real reason for the dumping of NT was NT decided that I (administrator) shouldn't log in - I told billy where to cram his operating system at that point) > I dont think that anyone would recommend a '386 for anything nowadays > (with '486-100s with on-board PCI IDE at about $100.)....I was talking > much more about the '486 or 100Mhz Pentium vs the higher end > stuff than obsoleted equipment like '386. Any kind of quality 486 system (even an SX/25) would work well for a web server on a 128K link pretty much no matter what kind of content (10-zillion little icons to 40 meg graphics), even on a pretty cheazy system ($9 hard drive controller). TTYL JS > Dennis
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