On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:51:19AM -0800, Duncan Shannon wrote:
> 
> >
> >[much biased]
> >
> >I believe apache.org is much of a testimony to Apache being able to handle
> >the load for whatever Duncan can throw at it 1).  
> >What Duncan needs to make sure is that he has the pipe that can serve it
> >and as you point out, enough memory to have enough childs running.
> >
> >1) http://www.apache.org/server-status
> >   3788 GB over the last 20 days, which is about 8 GB/hour or about 2MB/s
> >   (byte, not bit). And this is without a new release within those 20 days
> >   afair) 
> 
> wow. thats a lot of traffic. I really hope we dont have that much, or 
> well go broke!

Just see it get even worse when they release a new version.

> any special considerations to keep in mind hardware wise? was thinking 
> some fast drives, in raid10, and that CPU wouldnt really matter all that 
> much.  am i off?

I don't really think it will matter much, at home I have two machines I
max out 100mbit with scp between them. And that's just between some
ide drives. And those machines are only PIII 1GHz's (one only has 128MB mem).


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