Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:57:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Edward Ing <inge@cr343877-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sizing up FreeBSD for mass public charity event registration over I'Net Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906041556380.13154-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <001601beaec7$b3526900$3221a8c0@bingo.lansa.com>
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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
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