Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:55:46 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@mu.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <002d01c1b85a$12a6e720$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020217143343.41758.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> <20020217173609.A25030@energyhq.homeip.net> <3C703154.91ED7FB4@mindspring.com> <20020217224724.GL12136@elvis.mu.org> <018c01c1b816$6482f5a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020218022759.GM12136@elvis.mu.org>
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Alfred writes: > More hardware means more sysadmin time, means > higher chances of failure, means your software > must be more robust in dealing with failures. No. A system with 1 GB requires no more maintenance and is no less stable than a system with 256 MB. A system with a 1300 MHz processor is no less stable and requires no more maintenance than a system with a 200 MHz processor. > An example is a large server farm that I know > of that even with true ECC ram gets several > non-recoverable memory errors per-day. Reduce the number of servers, and make them larger. That may help. > Expenses go up the larger your cluster is ... Who said anything about expanding a cluster? > No amount of hardware thrown at a problem can > equal a well thought out design. Any system that must be dedicated in order to use 100% of the machine for application load is underpowered. Production systems must have safety margins in capacity if there is any variance in load at all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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