Re: Linux Director Specs

I'm working on a similar solution. If you don't mind me asking. How much
traffic per sec are you pushing through the active node ?


Thanks.

On 6/7/06, D. Dante Lorenso <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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:
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>     http://www.ultramonkey.org/3/topologies/ha-lb-overview.html
>
> Dante
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> >
> >
> > On 6/7/06, *D. Dante Lorenso* <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> >     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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