[farcry-dev] Re: Custom rules

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:09:37 -0700

Thanks Jeff, that's helpful. I definitely agree, beefing up the RAM is a lot faster and cheaper than spending hours tweaking code! And luckily I shouldn't have a hard time getting my company to do so.
Rachel

 
On 4/3/06, Jeff Coughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Rachel,

 

> …if anyone has any add'l performacing tuning tips for Farcry (other than caching which seems to help a lot) I'm all ears!

 

With the larger sites I have deployed I have found one common requirement repeatedly.  Because you are now dealing with a database driven website the DB is doing a lot of the work.  My clients (so far) are using MSSQL and I have found that the need for RAM is always the case (especially if your client insists on running the SQL server on the same box as CF).  Fortunately RAM is one of the cheaper hardware requirements these days.  Also, if you plan to cache a lot (which is suggested), you'll need RAM for that on the CF box (again, one of the cheaper hardware requirements).

 

Every FarCry site I've launched has been on multiprocessor servers (usually XEON).  But to be honest, with proper caching techniques I've rarely seen the need for the extra CPU horsepower (depending on any 3 rd-party apps/resources required on the box or website).

 

Bottom line: RAM.  For most production servers I usually give SQL 4 GB.  I've tried using 2GB on a few servers (and that may be plenty ofr your setup), but you really need to watch the system resources.  One SQL server I had running decided to lock-up after a couple months when it couldn't get any more RAM (that site has thousands of pages and requires about 1.8GB RAM just for SQL).  Rebooting temporarily fixed the problem until we increased the RAM to 4GB (3GB would probably have been enough, but we played it safe).

 

Hope that helps,

 

Jeff Coughlin

Web Application Developer

http://www.jeffcoughlin.com


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