> I think that the problem here is that we've asked for more info
> and he hasn't
> supplied it. He's given us generics and as a result has gotten generic
> answers.
I haven't been fishing for a handout of doing the work for me. I've been
trying to see what people have done. The reason for the waiting I've done
is, I've looked at no less than 7 CPAN modules that do some kind of
resource/server monitoring, and I couldn't figure out which one(s) would go
together as a reasonable combination.
> 1) What are the average hits per second that you are projecting
> this box to handle?
Up to, say 3,000,000 hits/aday.
> 2) What is the peak hits per second that you are project this box
> to handle?
This is a guesstimate, but approx 50/s
> 3) We know you have a gig of ram, but give us info on the rest of
> the platform?
No, I have 2GB of ram, on a dual PIII/550 BX board, on a 8GB drive
> 4) What's your OS like? Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. & which
> version and/or flavor
Running RedHat 6.1 updated w/ all kindsa current pathches/updates.
> 5) What other processes are you running?
predominantly I'm running a Count Daemon on the same box. My project is
http://www.exitexchange.com, and I take raw hits at the webserver and fire
them over to my count daemon which keeps load down on the Database... but
I'm ahead of myself.
> 6) Do you have a Database? Which one? A gig of ram is nothing to Oracle
Oracle 8.1.6 on a Sun 450 (4x400Mhz UltraSparc ### w/ 2GB of Ram, 7x9GB SCSI
in a software RAID for the dataspace running Solaris 8)
> 6a) Will be running queries constantly or will you be caching a lot?
Whenever possible, I try to cache alot. The largest part of the application
that is NOT cached is the part I'm working on right now... ever heard of
POE?
> 7) What other modules are you running? PhP? SpeedyCGI? Axkit? Cocoon?
Well, the count server is only running mod_perl, with a couple of custom
server extensions, all pretty lean. Per process is abt 12.5MB, shared is
5600k.
> In short what is the server DOING at any given moment. Until
> folks have a feel
> for this no one is going to be able to offer you any insight
> beyond what you
> already have.
Well I get a hit, I hit the database for the response, I send it back
interpolated into the response content. Currently about 800K times/day.
:-)
However
I got what I was looking for out of this discussion a couple of messages
back, with Perrin's example. YES the numbers are made up. No problem... I
have a basic syntactic skeleton to work with, now I can fine tune.
L8r,
Rob
