Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:29:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Barrett Richardson <rabtter@orion.aye.net> Cc: dyson@iquest.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I want to break binary compatibility. Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980827082118.2119D-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <35E4B9B2.3892CF05@orion.aye.net>
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On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Barrett Richardson wrote: > I do, however have good news to report after our system breach. We did > have > a quad Challenge DM with 384 megs of RAM. Out of necessity we threw our > virtual domains (about 330) on a Pentium 133 with 128 megs of RAM and > decided to let it run till it choked before we slapped more RAM and a > faster processor in it. The SGI was doing other significant thing other > than virtaul domains, but those were responsible for about half the load > -- > and the SGI was struggling. The choking point we were dreading with our > FreeBSD box never came -- still sitting there humming along while we are > piecing together some permanent boxes. To say that we are "suprised" is > an understatement. I have over 200 virtual domains running off an Indy R4600 @ 133mhz w/ 64M. I don't have any problems with this. Sounds like you need to do some tuning somewhere. Not that FreeBSD isn't capable, it is very capable, and very good at this. My point is that your SGI should be giving you alot better performance than it is. I have found that the single largest botleneck for apache on my SGI's here is the number of file descriptors it's allowed to have open. The system default is fairly low (200 per process, 2500 total), and really should be upped no matter what you are using the machine for. Our Oracle, mail, and news servers all benefited from upping this. I doubt this is relevant only to Irix. Jamie Bowden -- Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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