Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 04:07:32 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Stuart Tanner <stuart@sigterm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020218120732.GW12136@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020218221249.G214@osiris.sigterm.com> References: <20020217143343.41758.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> <20020217173609.A25030@energyhq.homeip.net> <3C703154.91ED7FB4@mindspring.com> <20020217224724.GL12136@elvis.mu.org> <018c01c1b816$6482f5a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020218022759.GM12136@elvis.mu.org> <002d01c1b85a$12a6e720$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020218092328.GU12136@elvis.mu.org> <20020218221249.G214@osiris.sigterm.com>
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* Stuart Tanner <stuart@sigterm.com> [020218 03:12] wrote: > > On 2002.02.18 20:23 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >* Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> [020218 00:55] > >wrote: > >> Alfred writes: > >> > > >> > >> > An example is a large server farm that I know > >> > of that even with true ECC ram gets several > >> > non-recoverable memory errors per-day. > >> > >> Reduce the number of servers, and make them larger. That may help. > > > >Yes, throwing out several hundred boxes and replacing them certainly > >sounds cost effective to me. :) > > > > Just a question about this statement. Are you saying that you are > running 500 plus Intel (or clone) based PC's as a single cluster? Of course not. I specifically crafted the system such that it would run on only a handful of machines. I didn't want to wind up like some other large sites that require ungodly amount machines because they never invested the time into a real solution. Last I heard of the operation they had something like three of my webservers running and five or so databases running postgresql and my data massaging scripts. I think they were doing nearly two hundred million hits a day, but I'm unsure of the exact numbers. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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