[ic] Should I buy another CPU?

John Beima interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Wed Mar 20 12:21:01 2002


G'Day Sphen,


Why don't you just call me... Then I can answer what I can for you, and we can
go from there... 780-451-1086...


John


Quoting interch <interch@ns1.nawabenterprises.com>:

> On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 08:05  PM, John Beima wrote:
> 
> G'Day Bill,
> 
> You know this is a very good question...
> 
> Here are my views on it...
> 
> We have 1 pIII-1G box with 1 1/2G of RAM serving up 300+ low traffic
> Interchange
> sites. These sites serve about 60 Gigs a month.
> 
> 
> 
> hey john....
> 
> are these interchange sites using foundation? i was under the impression
> that foundation is not optimized very well, because our machine, some
> sort of AMD 650Mhz processor, with 768 Megs of ram, is serving up about
> 30-40 gigs a month right now alright with the load average between .8
> and 2.5 or so on average.  sometimes it gets higher.  im scrambling
> around trying to make things go more efficient but assume ill need a
> better server.  This is *only* running one catalog. (~9200 products).
> 
> but since i am looking into buying new servers, it would be great to
> know what is necessary so i dont get something too good etc.
> 
> cheers.
> 
> -sphen
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