Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:39:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907231036190.3253-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907230059500.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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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
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