On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy 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. ;-)
Adrian
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