From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 13 15:43:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05575 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 15:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stingray.ivision.co.uk (stingray.ivision.co.uk [195.50.91.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05563 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 15:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from manar@ivision.co.uk) Received: from pretender.ivision.co.uk [194.112.59.75] by stingray.ivision.co.uk with smtp (Exim 1.62 #2) id 0yZkEv-0006eX-00; Wed, 13 May 1998 23:43:10 +0100 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980513234205.00b97e30@stingray.ivision.co.uk> X-Sender: manarpop@stingray.ivision.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 23:42:05 +0100 To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Manar Hussain Subject: Re: how many virtual www server on a 2.2.6 PPro machine ? In-Reply-To: <3559FCB1.C2722594@pipeline.ch> References: <19980513210347.A12724@klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I know someone who got to 1000 sites but it killed the machine (bit more work on config and RAM etc. would have cured it though). No several machines running fine with 600 off servers. Make sure there are enough mbufs and file handles available (preferably avoid too many file handles being needed by not giving all sites their own logs unless needed) and you're a good way there ... >memory did'nt fail). One suggestion was to alias your loopback >interface with all that ip's and put a static route on your >router that points to the whole class-c on your box. This avoids >all the ARP entries on your ethernet (and I think the arp tables >are not very huge). we do that ... not got too many interfaces on that box yet though so it's hard to say if it makes much difference. More convenient on the ip address tracking though :) Manar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message