Thought you guys might enjoy seeing the highest load ever for a single website on a dedicated server (well that I've seen anyway)
11:37am up 28 days, 1:17, 3 users, load average: 50.17, 35.08, 24.95
At lunchtimes, the average is higher. This site gets on average 20 hits/sec for reference, and a a intesnive CGI/MySQL beast.
Heardware is dual PIII-550, with RAID 5 SCSI and is a HP Netserver costing approx 7,500 quid. It also has around 640Mb of RAM, and a triple redundant PSU.
We've already said it needs a new box. And for client confidality reasons, I'm not permitted to say which site it is, sorry!
Dan Jones Network Operations UK Solutions, a part of CAD Internet
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 11:43:51AM +0000, Dan Jones wrote:
11:37am up 28 days, 1:17, 3 users, load average: 50.17, 35.08, 24.95
At lunchtimes, the average is higher. This site gets on average 20 hits/sec for reference, and a a intesnive CGI/MySQL beast.
Uh. Tell me you've daemonised it upto the balls then? 20 hits a second shouldn't be *that* bad on a machine of that spec unless there is a *serious* bottleneck somewhere. What on earth are the queries doing?! (Time to invest in a fast backbone and an oracle server? - 640MB is nothing for a database server these days)
Paul
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Dan Jones wrote:
At lunchtimes, the average is higher. This site gets on average 20 hits/sec for reference, and a a intesnive CGI/MySQL beast.
We've already said it needs a new box.
Sounds more like it needs some serious optimisation! There is a point where throwing more hardware at the problem doesn't provide an adequate solution, and giving the kit you're already running, I think you're near it!
Andrew.
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