Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 18:38:14 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much memory for web server? Message-ID: <3C65B2E6.1060300@potentialtech.com> References: <20020209225242.45306.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com>
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Tom Kersten wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently running a web/ftp server on the > following hardware: > 1.7 ghz AthlonXP > 512mb DDR memory > GA-7vtxe motherboard > ...using a cable connection While your cable connection may be very fast on the download side, many companies limit the upload side to 10-50% of the download speed. This could be your problem. Check your cable contract and see exactly what your upload speed is. > I use X-windows frequently and am wondering how much > it affects the web/ftp serving performance. X-windows by itself is not going to hurt your http/ftp performance on a machine like that. What are you using within x-windows? > From > reading past posts, it sounds like this is not really > the best combination. What posts are those? That machine should be able to serve gobs of requests per hour. It's probably capable of serving more data than your cable connection can handle. > I have another box laying around > that is a P-166 w/ 48 mb of memory. I am thinking > about setting this up with FreeBSD 4.5 as a firewal > and print server (only serving 2 other computers), > would this efficiently work as a web/ftp server box > also, or is it too slow? It's all reletive. How much data are you expectin it to handle? Generally, a machine of that calaber can handle a slow web site and ftp site with no problem. About 2 years ago, I did a demo on how well FreeBSD could handle web serving. I had a MySQL database with 10,000 records being accessed through a web front-end running php, this was all on a 486/100mhz with 24M of RAM. The people I showed the demo to were extremely impressed with the performance, but the machine was only getting a few hits per day. > What kind of hardware is > required for serving a personal website...with really > not a lot of traffic? Any advice is appreciated... "With really not a lot of traffic", that machine is probably so overpowered it's ridiculous. The p133 could probably do the job easily. Watch top(1) and/or systat(1) while the machine is running and see how hard it's working. I think you'll find its idle most of the time. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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