Re: [mv] Planning to have extreamly heavy traffic.

[Hans-Joachim Leidinger <jojo@buchonline.net>]

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Brian DeSpain wrote:
> > > PII 266 128MB Apache-SSL 1.3.9 and MV 3.14-3 This configuration is temp. I plan on building a much more up-to-date system in the
> > > future.The initial database will only contain approx.100-200 products with lots of detail reguarding the product.
> > >
> > > Question? Are there any concreat statistics for Memory and CPU reguarding MiniVend; for instance, max concurrent users per
> > > xxMB's of RAM and is MiniVend a CPU hog?
> >
> > I can only talk from my own experience, but you may want to increase
> > your memory.  I'm using a dual processor Pentium Pro/200 Linux box that
> > had 128M of RAM, but the load was climbing after a few days, then minivend
> > would dump core and the system would crash.
> >
> 
> We generally reccomend at least 256 megs of ram for heavily trafficked sites. The system is much more likely to becomed memory bound
> rather than CPU bound.
> 

Donīt forget the mv_matchlimit and other speed issues (look for speed in
mailarchiv).

E.g. 
RAM = 256
OS = FreeBSD 3.1
CPU = Cereon 450MHz
SCSI HD
mv_matchlimit = unlimited 
ca. 3000 items
search for "a"
CPU-rate ca. 14%

mv_matchlimit = 10
search for "a"
CPU-rate ca. 2%

Regards,

	Joachim

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