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To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
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Subject: Re: Pentium Pro? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 23:25:36 -0700
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>> And on another slightly related note, what would be the
>> best configuration for a Web site under FreeBSD, that would
>> require a minimum of 1Million hits per day.
>
>1 MILLION?  Holy cow!
>
>Lots of RAM, 100-mbit link, fast hard disks.  Just a quick guess.  Perhaps
>someone else can comment (how about wcarchive / www.cdrom.com?).

   Wcarchive is currently getting about 400,000 hits/day. It does this while
handling an average of about 900 simultaneous FTP users. All of this combined
results in an average of about 20Mbits/sec of outbound traffic in the daytime.
The WWW stuff is actually a very small portion of the overall CPU and network
load - perhaps 10% of it, so one should be able to do >1M hits/day even with
just a few T1's. A Pentium/133 with 64MB should do nicely for such an
application, but that's just a guess. I have it on good authority that a
certain major FreeBSD-using WWW search engine/index is doing several million
hits/day with a machine not too dissimilar to this (although it's a 166)...so
it's possible.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project