From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 14 2:34: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8121C14EAF for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:34:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA21674; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910140932.CAA21674@implode.root.com> To: "rick - SomersNet, Inc." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5-10,000 connected HTTP users??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:21:28 PDT." <38054C38.F7F16497@123hostit.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:32:58 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Can someone tell me if it is possible to have 10,000 connected http >users if your hardware will support it and running FreeBSD and Apache. > >I am looking into buying a monster server from DELL with 4 p-3 550 >processors, 2 gigs of ram, and a terabyte of drive space. However before >I do I want to make sure there is an OS that can handle what I want to >get out of it. > >anyone have an opinion on this? I know it's a bit out of the ordinary.. Probably not, unless the http server you're using is extremely lean on memory usage (which Apache is most definately NOT). Wcarchive can handle 10,000 FTP users, but only because it is running a special ftp daemon that I wrote which has a very small memory requirement (and even with that, the machine still needs 4GB of RAM to get there). With 2GB of RAM you could probably handle around 1500-2000 simultaneous http users. If you double the RAM to 4GB you might be able to get close to your low end 5K users number. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message