[ic] bandwidth requirements/server sizing

[Dan Browning]

At 04:18 PM 5/6/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Does anyone have any information that may help me understand bandwidth
>requirements and to specify server sizing for an IC 4.8.7 server?
>
>I will most likely be running debian 3.0r1 on i386 architecture.
>
>Any feedback will be appreciated, ideally:
>
>'We have one/X catalog(s) that experiences X page requests/second, typically
>our bandwidth requirements are X Mbps.  We are running X os, on a X Ghz
>single processor with X Gb ram, and SCSI/IDE RAID/non-RAID harddisk that
>have average read seek time of X milliseconds'
>
>TIA.
>
>Chris

I can't speak for your bandwidth requirements, because I save my psychic powers for more rewarding endeavors.  (You know that bandwidth util has absolutely nothing to do with Interchange, right?)  However, I did recently finish some benchmarking, and I found:

 * Dual P-3 1.0ghz, 1GB ram:  60 requests/second (for a simple dynamic page with one sql query and some html).  80 requests/second for a "hello, world" page.

In our testing, the CPU was the bottleneck, it never used over 400 mb RAM.


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