Well, that's two mentions for CentOS so that warrants a closer investigation. Thanks for the assistance since I haven't even seen a running Linux box in my life. I guess I've just been Microsoft and Apple sheltered!
As for the MySQL database and how much memory to assign it for cache, well, it will be all by itself on this 16gb ram 2950 server so I guess I can give it like 12 or 14 gigs of ram without even worrying about it, wouldn't you agree? On Jan 29, 10:34 am, Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the advice! Someone else just noted that FreeBSD might be > > the way to go as well. Any opinions or experience with this OS?FreeBSD is > > great, but then I might be biased as it's what I use most > often. At work we run CentOS and while I don't really like the way it's > setup, (i'm used to freebsd :) it works great too. > > THe hardware you have below will easily handle 25K page views a day... > that's really only about 1 every 4 seconds... > > About the only decision you have to make is how many gigs you want to give > mysql for it's cache... the rest should take care of itself.. :) > > > > > On Jan 29, 9:55 am, "Sean Leach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2950 worked perfect for me using CentOS 4.4 (4.3 didn't recognized > >> controller). > > >> Also the Megamon utils (was a megaraid SAS controller) worked flawlessly. > > >> On 1/29/07, Michael Biven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Expect to have a few issues getting the RAID on the 1950 and 2950 to > >>> work with Linux. There are a few fixes out there, but most distros > >>> currently have issues working with the RAID controller in both of > >>> those PowerEdge models. It will work, but takes a little extra effort. > > >>>http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=6def98421b0dca2ecde3fb47... > > >>> Michael B. > > >>> On 1/29/07, roller8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>> HI all. I'm in a currently all Microsoft house but we are redesigning > >>>> our current website in Rails complete with ecommerce. We currently > >>>> get about 25,000 page views and this site will almost be entirely DB > >>>> driven (though I plan to use some caching whenever possible). > > >>>> Now for the hardware: > >>>> I have two Dell Poweredge 1950's with dual dual-core processors, U320 > >>>> SCSI drives and 16gb of ram that I will put behind a hardware load > >>>> balancer for serving this Rails site. > > >>>> I also have another Dell Poweredge 2950 with dual dual-core > >>>> processors, U320 SCSI RAID-5 drives and 16gb of ram that I will use > >>>> for running the MySQL DB on. > > >>>> These are obviously performance powerhouses but I'm a Rails/MySQL > >>>> newbie and a Linux idiot. I have a 100% successful development server > >>>> already up and running on Windows 2003 Server with Apache 2.x ( I > >>>> think it's 2.3 but it escapes me now) with mod_proxy_balancer, a 5 > >>>> instance Mongrel cluster and a MySQL instance on it so I know it's > >>>> possible in Windows if I pony up for the $2000+ Windows Server > >>>> Enterprise licenses for all 3 machines but if I'll get better > >>>> performance out of Linux and a cast savings then?? > > >>>> My question. Can anyone suggest what I should consider in order to > >>>> maximaize the use of this great hardware? I can't find any real > >>>> definitive RAM specs for linux online but like I said, I know nothing > >>>> about Linux anyway so I might not even be looking in the right place. > > >>>> Thanks for any assistance! > > >>> -- > >>> Michael Biven > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>http://biven.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
