Re: Resource estimation

Lou Montulli ([email protected])
Wed, 16 Jun 93 12:29:23 CDT

> For my proposal that's going to the committee here (I'm soon going to
> make all my CWIS documents available for public review via our WWW
> server -- I wrote them in HTML so it shouldn't be too hard to serve
> them :-) I need some estimates of the hardware to run a dedicated WWW
> server off.
>
> We will have about 10,000 users (hopefully :-) and I hope for
> relatively high usage. Can anyone suggest a suitable platform?
>
> Nat.

Our KUfacts machine supports 600-1000 Lynx logins per day with reasonable
speed. It is also used as a productional machine for academic research
work. The hardware behind the machine is a rs/6000 350 with only 32 mbytes
of RAM, so it isn't what you would call a 'heavy' machine. Lynx usage
is in general very unintensive with most processes using maybe 2% of the
processor with peaks in the teens during file transfers.

:lou

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