From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 23 7:39:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thneed.ubergeeks.com (thneed.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1B314D48 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:39:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by thneed.ubergeeks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04112; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:39:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) X-Authentication-Warning: thneed.ubergeeks.com: adrian owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:39:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Vincent Poy Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > > > > > I've had great results with the Tyan 1836DLUAN/Thunder 100's. > > > > I've got several boxes with 1GB of RAM and dual 450's humming along. For > > > > comparison one system with less memory and a SuperMicro board but identical > > > > system software has had a couple of wierd spontaneous reboots over the last > > > > few months. > > > > > > Cool... Is 1GB of ram really needed? We used to run a 64 meg > > > system then 128 meg and then 384 meg, it doesn't seem to do much even for > > > a heavily loaded ISP Server. > > > > Not really. The customer whose box this is chose this much memory > > because his previous server was a 256MB UltraSparc that was swamped all the > > time with a load of 6 to 7. > > > > The real problem was poor CGI programming. I made them fix them. > > Now it toodles along with ridiculously low loads. All the websites and the > > mysql db fit in core. ;-) > > That's true too.... Seems like FreeBSD can handle a real high load > without problems... If you can believe it they drove the system load up to 114 with their horrible Perl CGI's. Ammazingly, I could type "sudo apachectl stop" and wait 30 seconds or so for it to run. 114 and I didn't need to reboot the system. I was pleasantly surprised. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message