From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 0:56: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A5037B404 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:55:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g1I8trr96966; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:55:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <002d01c1b85a$12a6e720$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" 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> Subject: Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD? Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:55:46 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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