He is replacing *2* P3/1GHz by *1* P4/1.7GHz, I just wanted to point out that it doesn't look so much like an "upgrade".
And, you know, not all webservers need the same amount of power. The main "webserver" I manage is actually a cluster of 6 load-balanced Apache/mod_perl front-ends with a dedicated MySQL database server backend. All these servers are PentiumIII biprocessors ranging from 733MHz to 1.4GHz. We are serving more than 80 million pages/month (all dynamically generated) and have more than 5000 simultaneous *real* users on peak hours. I am sure that a single P3/450 or even a P4/1.7 would not support this load. We started 5 years ago with a single Pentium 120MHz, 16 MB Ram and 2x400Mb IDE disks ;) We had to replace it several times as trafic went up until we moved to our "cluster" architecture two years ago. We can now add new servers when necessary instead of replacing the old one. Regards -- Joseph Bueno Robert H.R. Restad wrote: > Maybe P4 1,7 mhz performs marginally better than a P3/1000Mhz, but ... > > My webserver have a P3/450Mhz with 384 MB Ram and a 10 Gb IDE drive :P I > cant seem to get above 1.0 load average on the machine on normal use (I have > average 10-30 people online simultaneously 24 hours a day). The machine runs > Apache/Php/MySQL. The only time I've reached 80-90% CPU load and more than > 1.0 load average was during stresstesting, where I let 500 simulated > visitors connect to 3 pages each every 20 seconds. The webserver, of course, > turned into a turtle, which is natural. But still, seeing a 1.7Ghz P4 with > those load averages, thats not something I find normal - compared to my > P3/450... > > Cheers > Rob. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
