Re: Hardware requirements for an LVS director

[mike <mike503@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/13/05, Peter J Milanese <PMilanese@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I run about 250m hits/month on a single p4 1gig with 512mb. IDE drives.
>
> Has been stable and unpained for 4 years. Failed over once by force (sanity 
> check).
>
> I just got a couple of Big IPs. They aren't much more than that.
>

wow. so with current-gen hardware like amd64 chips or even intel p4's,
and a gig of ram, i should be able to push at least 600m per month,
which comes out (if my math is right this late at night) to 231
requests per second; i'd love to double or triple that though, if
possible.