[ic] hardware recommendations

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Fred Pope (fred@satcomresources.com):
> "Any idea how big an increase in performance might I see from switching
> to 
> high-traffic mode and running MySQL?"
> 
> I noticed a measurable improvement by moving the database to its own
> server.
> 

The default setup in low-traffic mode is not optimized at all.

Quite frankly, your biggest performance wins will be:

    1. Put left-hand category list in timed-build mode.
    2. Move to PreFork mode.

That should give you a 5-15x improvement in pages per second, i.e.
8-20 per second.

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