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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news1.slip.net!news From: Devon Lazarus <devonl@digitalthink.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI, SCSI, RAM, and the web Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 18:55:12 -0700 Organization: DigitalThink Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3234CA80.2F1CF0FB@digitalthink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.174.160.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; BSD/OS 2.0 i386) CC: bsdi-users@bsdi.com hello all- we are currently running our internal web servers with BSD/OS 2.1 on P166 EIDE machines w/48 MB RAM. we are interested in upgrading these environments to P166 SCSI machines and some amount of RAM before we place them outside the firewall for all the world to see. my questions are: is there any information out there that i can read that discusses techincal issues relating the Intel/BSD/SCSI? what is a good amout of RAM for a site that expects about 1/2 million hits a day but with most (75%) hits calling a cgi (executable later to be turned into an API executable)? any suggestions [nice ones :)] will be helpful. tis -d |----------------------------------------| | Devon Lazarus Technology Group | | DigitalThink | | www.digitalthink.com coming November 1 | |----------------------------------------|