On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:20:39AM -0000, Bas Scheffers wrote: > Andrew Piskorski said: > > more complicatd of course, but if you were going to end up using, say 3 > > * 2 cpu FreeBSD front-end web server boxes, that's no different than how > > you'd run 6 * 1 cpu Linux boxes.
> There likely will be a big difference, the 6*1 CPU solution is likely > cheaper and delivers much better and more predictable performance! This is > because you won't end up with a skewed CPU load with one doing all the > page serving/Tcl work and one only running a DB proxy. You'll probably end > up with one CPU under utilized. Bas, you missed my point, which was precisely that running TWO AOLservers (each with an internal db driver) rather than one on the dual CPU FreeBSD box would help avoid that problem. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
