Re: Linux Director Specs

Dante

So you have gigabit nics to the switch and a standard cross over on the 2nd
nics.?


On 6/7/06, D. Dante Lorenso <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> SmallFries,
>
> You don't need that much ram:
>
> ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ----------
> > top -n 1 | egrep '^(Mem|Swap):'
> Mem:   1034712k total,   217100k used,   817612k free,    41840k buffers
> Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,   107312k cached
> ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ----------
>
> This is a 1U CentOS 4 server with 1 GB of ram and as you can see, it's
> only using about 256MB.  I think if you have a minimum of 512 MB, it
> will be more than adequate.
>
> I'm using UM3 LDs with both HA and LB serving a farm of 8 web servers
> but the web servers are only running at 1/2 load, so we could have
> gotten by with 4-6 as you are talking about.  The more important feature
> of your LB is the NIC, IMHO.  These servers have gigabit in order to
> reduce the bottleneck of throughput as bandwidth begins to push over 100
> MB.
>
> Dante
>
>
> SmallFries wrote:
> > Hello All
> >
> >
> > I am working on a deployment of the UltraMonkey software. I'm trying
> > to spec out some boxes for the LD's.
> > I'm thinking heavy 2GB on the ram and very little disk is needed.  The
> > setup will be HA and LB. The OS CentOS 4 with a 2.6.14 kernel.
> > It's a high traffic site with 4 - 6 web servers in the web farm.
> >
> > Thank You
>
>
>
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