[Gllug] how much memory

Sean Burlington sean at uncertainty.org.uk
Mon Sep 22 10:19:36 UTC 2003


Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Sean Burlington wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>  any advice on how much memory is needed by a webserver running RH9 
>>apache 1
>>
>>0.5 million hits per month - mostly php/mysql
> 
> It's more important how many hits per minute in peak. And how long those 
> peaks are. 0.5 million is not a big number. About 10-11 hits a minute.

the peak hour (lunchtime) serves an average 1200 hits
but this is where webalizer gets less useful...

anyone got a script handy to extract peak hits/minute from a logfile ?


> It depends on how many operations/hit is performed on db. 
> How complex those queries are.

lots of simple queries per page (I have taken over someone elses work 
and can optimise if I need to)


> With GD i will worry more about CPU.
> 
> imo it should be very fast on 256 with need sometimes to use swap.
> 512 should fit perfectly.
> 

thanks

-- 

Sean



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