From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 23 1: 2:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0421A14D21 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:02:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA60459; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:00:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Adrian Filipi-Martin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > > > I've had great results with the Tyan 1836DLUAN/Thunder 100's. > > > I've got several boxes with 1GB of RAM and dual 450's humming along. For > > > comparison one system with less memory and a SuperMicro board but identical > > > system software has had a couple of wierd spontaneous reboots over the last > > > few months. > > > > Cool... Is 1GB of ram really needed? We used to run a 64 meg > > system then 128 meg and then 384 meg, it doesn't seem to do much even for > > a heavily loaded ISP Server. > > Not really. The customer whose box this is chose this much memory > because his previous server was a 256MB UltraSparc that was swamped all the > time with a load of 6 to 7. > > The real problem was poor CGI programming. I made them fix them. > Now it toodles along with ridiculously low loads. All the websites and the > mysql db fit in core. ;-) That's true too.... Seems like FreeBSD can handle a real high load without problems... Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message