Re: Linux Director Specs

SmallFries wrote:
> Dante
>
> So you have gigabit nics to the switch and a standard cross over on 
> the 2nd nics.?

I have 2 gigabit nics in each LD and each nic connects to a different 
gigabit switch.  It is very similar to this configuration:

    http://www.ultramonkey.org/3/topologies/ha-lb-overview.html

Dante





>
>
> On 6/7/06, *D. Dante Lorenso* <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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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