Re: Server Stats

1999-10-21 Thread Ed Phillips
>this is like closing the gate after the horse has bolted without things >like decent locking and transactions. Although perhaps I'm mistaken and You can rest assured that they know what they are doing. :-) It is also worth upgrading to newer versions. The newest versions not deemed stable just

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pascal Eeftinck wrote: > As someone else already mentioned, the MySQL people are working hard on > making a distributed database possible. I'm curious to see what will > come of that, although I don't think I'll use the feature myself. And there are other far more important t

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-21 Thread Pascal Eeftinck
>Hi. I realise this is getting off-topic, so I suppose replies should go >direct to me unless they'll interest the list. I think it's of a general interest to the list really. :) >I work on a site that makes use of mod_perl, Apache and MySQL. We are >currently toying around with our server set-

Re: Spreading the load across multiple servers (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-21 Thread Ed Phillips
>I don't have any real answers - just a suggestion. What is wrong with the >classic RDBMS architecture of RAID 1 on multiple drives with MySQL - surely >it will be able to do that transparently? Yes, RAID is very helpful with MySQL. I spoke with Monty, the developer of MySQL at the open sour

RE: Spreading the load across multiple servers (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, William R. Lorenz wrote: > Has anyone considered writing a proxy to allow the client > and/or server software to connect to a single data source, > or would this defeat the purpose by having the software use > a single server as a proxy? :) > > In addition, what are the issue

RE: Spreading the load across multiple servers (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-21 Thread William R. Lorenz
Has anyone considered writing a proxy to allow the client and/or server software to connect to a single data source, or would this defeat the purpose by having the software use a single server as a proxy? :) In addition, what are the issues involved with mirroring a MySQL database between databas

Spreading the load across multiple servers (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-21 Thread Tim Bunce
[Note Reply-to: dbi-users] On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:58:42AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. I realise this is getting off-topic, so I suppose replies should go > direct to me unless they'll interest the list. > > I work on a site that makes use of mod_perl, Apache and MySQL. We are > cur

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-20 Thread austin . plunkett
Hi. I realise this is getting off-topic, so I suppose replies should go direct to me unless they'll interest the list. I work on a site that makes use of mod_perl, Apache and MySQL. We are currently toying around with our server set-up, trying to spread the load across multiple machines. For web-

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sadly Phillip Greenspun, while a great writer, isn't that fabulous > technically (although he's on the right track by not recommending NT). See > how he also recommends HP-UX as the fastest and most stable Unix around. Yeah, but have you seen the kit

Re: Dynamic page stats (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-06 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> While we're on the subject of dynamic pages and > stats, I'm in the process of writing a press > release database which is shared by hundreds > of clients. I haven't given too much though > to how to handle the stats, but as I finish the > back end design, I'm becoming more concerned that > trad

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-06 Thread Tom Mornini
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Pascal Eeftinck wrote: > MySQL is quick, it's by far the fastest you can get at most operations. On the > other hand, you can't easily spread the load over multiple servers, you can > forget about commit/rollback, you won't have stored procedures (yet) - and > there's probably

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-06 Thread Pascal Eeftinck
At 13:38 6-10-99 -0500, Frank Livaudais wrote: >Our issue comes from the fact we will have tables with millions and >millions of records and >thousands of simultaneous users. So we need to power that Oracle brings, >we are just >looking for ways to tweak the performance I don't think (never tr

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-06 Thread Rex Staples
I read the RDBMS versus article and was interested in the AOLserver solution. Assuming that I don't mind programming Tcl versus Perl, what are the pro's and cons of Apache and mod_perl versus AOLserver? Rex Matt Sergeant wrote: > > Sadly Phillip Greenspun, while a great writer, isn't that fabu

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-06 Thread Frank Livaudais
Our issue comes from the fact we will have tables with millions and millions of records and thousands of simultaneous users. So we need to power that Oracle brings, we are just looking for ways to tweak the performance

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-06 Thread Michael Peppler
Matt Sergeant writes: > On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, Frank Livaudais wrote: > > > > > Check out slashdot: http://slashdot.org> which serves up about half a > > > > > million hits a day (all dynamic) from a single dual x

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, Perrin Harkins wrote: > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, Frank Livaudais wrote: > > > > Check out slashdot: http://slashdot.org> which serves up about half a > > > > million hits a day (all dynamic) from a single dual xeon box running > > > > mod_perl. > > >

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-06 Thread Perrin Harkins
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, Frank Livaudais wrote: > > > Check out slashdot: http://slashdot.org> which serves up about half a > > > million hits a day (all dynamic) from a single dual xeon box running > > > mod_perl. > > > > What database is this running? Does anyone know? We

Re: Dynamic page stats (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-06 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 10:29 10/6/99 -0700, Jim Serio wrote: >How do those of you who run dynamic Web sites >deal with stats. I'm particularily interested >in those of you who use 1 or 2 scripts to >generate the whole site and how to differentiate >between what sections were viewed since a single >script generated th

Dynamic page stats (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-06 Thread Jim Serio
While we're on the subject of dynamic pages and stats, I'm in the process of writing a press release database which is shared by hundreds of clients. I haven't given too much though to how to handle the stats, but as I finish the back end design, I'm becoming more concerned that traditional stats

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-06 Thread Vivek Khera
> "FL" == Frank Livaudais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Check out slashdot: http://slashdot.org> which serves up about half a >> million hits a day (all dynamic) from a single dual xeon box running >> mod_perl. FL> What database is this running? Does anyone know? We are looking FL> to run

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, Frank Livaudais wrote: > > Check out slashdot: http://slashdot.org> which serves up about half a > > million hits a day (all dynamic) from a single dual xeon box running > > mod_perl. > > What database is this running? Does anyone know? We are looking to run Oracle 8i > on

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-05 Thread Michael Plump
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Frank Livaudais wrote: > > million hits a day (all dynamic) from a single dual xeon box running > > mod_perl. > > What database is this running? MySQL. -- Michael Allen Plump | Snorks + Kr0n = yip yip yip!

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-05 Thread Perrin Harkins
> > Check out slashdot: http://slashdot.org> which serves up about half a > > million hits a day (all dynamic) from a single dual xeon box running > > mod_perl. > > What database is this running? Does anyone know? http://slashdot.org/faq.shtml#Q9 > We are looking to run Oracle 8i > on a Sun bo

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-05 Thread Frank Livaudais
> > We run a large web site (about 90-120 million page view a month) and it is > > all asp. We also have antoher web site with about 10 million page view a > > month running mod perl. I am looking for anyone else who is running a large > > site (> than 75 million page views a month) that are usi

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-05 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, Frank Livaudais wrote: > Hi, > > We run a large web site (about 90-120 million page view a month) and it is > all asp. We also have antoher web site with about 10 million page view a > month running mod perl. I am looking for anyone else who is running a large > site (> tha

Server Stats

1999-10-05 Thread Frank Livaudais
Hi, We run a large web site (about 90-120 million page view a month) and it is all asp. We also have antoher web site with about 10 million page view a month running mod perl. I am looking for anyone else who is running a large site (> than 75 million page views a month) that are using Mod perl