From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 15:57:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A4A14E58 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27967; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:57:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Edward Ing Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sizing up FreeBSD for mass public charity event registration over I'Net In-Reply-To: <001601beaec7$b3526900$3221a8c0@bingo.lansa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please wrap your lines. Thanks. On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Edward Ing wrote: > I am wondering if FreeBSD on a pentium class 200MHZ machine with > 64M can handle the duties of processing about 1000 registrations > during a 3 hour period/ per night coming through the internet. I am > planning to use http based solutions excuting either CGI or preferably > java servlets. To access a db system. I am not sure what that will be. Wcarchive was a PPro200 for quite some time. Your disk will be the bottleneck, so you better have fast SCSI disks for best performance. > Will my bottleneck be FreeBSD or the internet connection or both? Or none. Think slowest point -- usually disk before network. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message