Todd Lyons wanted us to know:
>mike wanted us to know:
>
>>Would a single Athlon 64 suffice? or Opteron? 512MB RAM? 2 gigs? Dual
>>processors?
>>Right now, over web alone, it appears I'm doing 12-15 million requests
>>per day. I expect this number to grow a lot more. I currently have 6
>>webservers serving up content behind my existing [blackbox/ISP
>>provided] load balancing service. I want plenty of headroom to grow.
>
>We have a web system that's load balanced at around 7 million packets
>per day. It's running on a Pentium III 700 with 2 Gigs of RAM.
>Load average runs typically below 0.05 (ldirectord is doing that).
I'm sorry, I posted incorrect data, 7 million is too low. It's actually
about 140 million packets per day. 7 million is the number of
operations hitting our ldap cluster. I have no idea why I confused
those two numbers.
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Regards... Todd
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Linux kernel 2.6.12-12mdksmp 3 users, load average: 0.37, 0.13, 0.10
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