With his connection speed and simply serving up basic pages / images (no databases) I
can't see any reasons to go to much trouble.. I have a Pentium 133 with 16MB that
could keep up with 128kbps all day long, cached or not cached. Unless your just not
wanting your drive to spin and have a lot of time / money to waste I don't see much
benefit to tweaking out a slow upload server..
Now, if you have a fast connection (ie; T1 or >) I would keep an eye out on disk IO
and CPU util and see if the machine is keeping up with your pipe.. Scripting and
Database work will obviously increase these. If your not keeping up with the request
then you might consider adjusting cache levels, cranking up memory and shutting down
some of that disk IO.
As for validating what version of Sambar you are running to ensure the server doesn't
have delays feeding images, I am all for that.
Danny
On 28/Nov/2002 05:28:41, Peter wrote:
> Jack
> There are a number of thing's you can do to speed up Sambar but first you
> should have a real good idea of the limits of your system (how much RAM
> NIC's etc. The cache is a good thing to use but it should be limited to
> only a portion of your overall memory. On a system I have here there is 2
> gigs of RAM and I give Sambar 512 MB on another with 512 MB I give Sambar
> 50 MB. It's also important to decide on what you're going to cache
> setting the max file size to the rough size of your thumbnails will
> improve the delivery. htacess is also very handy for specifying the type
> of file you want to cache and how long to cache them.
>
> Also try compressing your content that can really help (config.ini
> Compress Content = true)
>
> Tod has also introduced a little more control of the threads used and by
> increasing the idle threads it will speed up image loads. I never had the
> broken image problem that Steffen referred to but the idle threads seems
> to have fixed that.
>
> I don't think there's too much you can do to tweak XP home that might be
> a drawback but I used a cable modem like that a couple years ago and you
> should still be able to serve pages quickly if they are well designed and
> lean.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:47:01 -0500
> Subject: [sambar] server speed for visitors {01}
>
> > I've been running the basic Sambar 5.1 for an amature website. With a
> > lot of pictures. (OS is Win XP home)
> >
> > What would help make the sever faster for visitors? I limited the
> > number of connections to 30 and set the cache to 1000000 I only have a
> > cable modem with 128 upload but is pretty steady.
> >
> > I am a beginner at this and love Sambar for what I do. The gui's on
> > your admin page help out!!! I use to run appache but found Sambar way
> > better fo me!!! I read a lot of posts on your board but wouldn't know
> > how to make major config changes. but it's good reading :)
> > thanks
> > Jack
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