I know of an ISP that was happily hosting 90VS on a dual PIII-800Mhz, 1Gb
RAM, 2x36Gb hard disks(Ultra-DMA 100)...
I suppose the answer is to get hold of some good resource monitoring tools
to gauge if hardware is being over/under utilised - anyone have any
suggestions?
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brendan
> McLoughlin
> Sent: 24 April 2001 14:35
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: So many processes
>
>
> I'd say so!
>
> It's probably best to not go for a low end machine if you are planning on
> running 200 VS's.
>
> Not sure about what spec can reasonably cope with what number of processes
> or VS's though. Can anyone comment or give some advice on what hardware
> would be needed I think we will probably run about 60 accounts per machine
> on a standard one and that will be a 1ghz AMD with 1GB of DDR
> SDRAM we will
> run perhaps 200 small accounts on one machine but we are not sure
> what spec
> that should be. Our high end one will have 10 VS's on it and we
> might do one
> with just 4 VS's
>
> I think we guessed at about 6MB memory per VS without any thing actually
> happening so we will probably allow around 24MB if we can per VS Is this
> right?
>
> Any comments would be useful
>
> Brendan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joel Shellman
> Sent: 24 April 2001 14:23
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: So many processes
>
>
> I realize I asked this before but I didn't see any answer.
>
> Isn't there some concern about how many processes a machine would be
> running with 200 VS's set up? With MySQL and apache running on each VS,
> that's approximately 3000 processes. Won't that cause a significant
> strain on a typical low end (ie. 600 MHz Pentium III) server?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Joel Shellman
> http://www.ikestrel.net/
