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Vincent Janelle (malokai@gildea.net)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:08:50 -0700 (PDT)
A Ultrasparc, dending if you have IDE or not, running solaris and apache,
is capable of more hits/second than a Linux box of hardware from the same
time era.
It also depends on if you have more than one processor in there, how fast
it is, if you've more than one processor, how much ram... Perhaps you
should provide some more stats as to what kind of hardware you're running
in that ultrasparc.
If you're looking for serious(really serious) hits/sec, PCs don't have
enough memory bandwidth, but for the cost of one ultrasparc vs the cost of
a cluster of PCs is different :) The PCs could probably do more.
Note, by the # of hits/sec, I'm talking about something about the level of
microsoft's website or simplenet.
--Vincent Janelle "MCSE = Must Consult Someone Experienced"
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mark wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am curious if anyone can tell me what the capacity of a Linux/Apache
> combination machine might be as a web server. What amount of traffic and
> how many domains could this combo support? My preference would be to use a
> Pentium 400 single or dual processor or better.
>
> We are currently using a Sun Sparc Ultra and are finding a few issues with
> the machine in terms of upgrade costs.
>
> Mark Fester
>
>
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