Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Question about graphic-only servers....

2006-04-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What you need more of depends on what you are about to run out of. If you always have plenty of free memory, adding more RAM won't help. If the load average is always low, adding more CPUs won't help. You also need to look at how hard your network

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Question about graphic-only servers....

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel P. Brown
Hey, gang, this is my first post to the list (though I've been an Apache user for over a decade now). My question to the experts in the field is relatively simple, but I'd like to get some insight from a group instead of relying on my own [humble lack of] knowledge before making the

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Question about graphic-only servers....

2006-04-11 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Daniel P. Brown once stated: One of my customers is using a load-balanced set of four servers. One server is fully-capable of handling the MySQL databases and PHP webpages with no problems at all. However, he has three additional servers so far, all

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Question about graphic-only servers....

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel P. Brown
Sean, First, you're correct about the content. It is all static, and all binary (all JPeg and GIF images). Secondly, the traffic throughput has been good - about 80-100Mbps steadily from three test points and the point of origination. Finally, the connections are set as follows: