[JDEV] server installation

[Thomas Charron]

Quoting Robert Thompson <robert at sv3.com>:
> An interesting thought is:
> When does a typical T1 Bandwidth begin to be the bottleneck versus the
> Server?
> OR
> When will Memory Size, SCSI RPM Speed and Processor Speed begin to
> out-perform the possible traffic that could reach 1 Server on a T1?
> These are very important questions because some of us are creating services
> with the goal of them being Very Popular...and if so, it's nice to know
> your prepared.

  That'd be a really tough one to answer, and I'd say comparing web server 
statistics on this very thing is a good example..

  Example 1:

  Server is a PII300 serving up HUGE memory cached static web pages

  Outcome:

  Overloaded T1

  Example 2:

  Server is a PIII750 serving up CGI scripts from a disk based database

  Outcome:

  The disks may become an issue, with millions of request, and probrably will
  take more processing time, and hence, a T1 would serve fine do to the data
  access time.

  Example 3:

  A KryoTech K7-1000 w/64 Megs serving 10,000 users.

  Outcome:

  That's a gimme..  Memory's going to hurt this puppy bad, no matter HOW fast
  it can swap to that there disk..  ;-P

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Thomas Charron
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