You should get an identical 20gig IDE drive to 'mirror' the O/S partitions,
and since you have a SCSI setup for the data areas, you should get at least
2 more of those, and 'stripe' the data across them (or at least get a second
drive to 'mirror' those partitions as well). Though 'mirroring' will only
give you a performance boost (up to 2 times) for 'reads', it will protect
against a full failure (especially if you ARE going to be that busy) if one
of the drives fails... A 3+ drive 'stripe' will give you a great 'write'
performance increase, but won't protect the data against drive failure. (if
you have a lot of money to spend, get 5 more drives, and stripe the data
across 3 of them, and 'mirror' them to the other 3 drives... If you have a
REAL lot of money to spend, put the 2nd 3 SCSI drives on a different SCSI
controller)
----- Original Message -----
From: "P.Agenbag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 9:34 AM
Subject: heavy load configuration
> I have a Linux box running mysql and apache, and we are expecting quite
> a load on the 1st of June. We have an application form whose data will
> be written into a db on the same server and I would like to know what I
> can do to make sure things go smooth.
> The machine is an AMD 500, with 320MB RAM, 256MB SWAP a 20GB IDE with
> the OS on and a 18,2GB SCSI 10000rpm for backup and location of
> /var/lib/mysql in order to facilitate high speed writes of the tables to
> disk.
>
> How will I know if my server is up to it, or should I rather say, how
> many consecutive users will this box be able to handle? The line
> shouldn't be a problem, I think it sits on a couple of 100 MB/s line.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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