Re: Best Hardware Combination

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck@snew.com>]

Quoting IeS (ies@eramuslim.com):
> > I like the red one.  It goes faster.
> > 
> > As with most things, this question needs to be qualified.  Best for
> > what?  3D rendering?  File and print services?  Web surfing?  Routing
> > IP packets?  Seti@Home processing?  All of these are valid uses of
> > OpenBSD but the "best" hardware platform will be diferent for each of
> > them.  With out us knowing what you want to use your machine for no one
> > can provide an intelligent recommendation.
> 
> I mean the best/fastest hardware combination for webserver and mailserver.

Wow, there's two entirely different uses.
webserver:  CGI?  PHP?  Static HTML files?

Mail:  
Lots of IO.  Get a good RAID box with buffering.

Now, volumes and use of this will make more differences.
10000 hits/day?  50k messages/day for 200 users?

Or 200k web hits in 8 hours?  400k users using IMAP
with lots of attachments.

I've found that SQUID sitting on a Solid State Disk
as a reverse cache in front of a few web servers flies.
The new IBM 15k RPM disks help too.  With a T1 line,
that's all moot.

Ask informed questions, you will get informed answers.

> A week ago I installed OpenBSD 2.8-stable on i815e/aha29160/Seagate 
> Barracuda 18G/512M RAM/3C905C/PIII-800.
> 
> Compare with Slakware-current using ezpublish-2.0, using ezhttpbench 
> webserver throughput under OBSD is 1500 pages/min. and under slakware is 
> 4500 pages/min.
> 
> I use mysql as db and qmail/vmailmgr as mail system.
> My SCSI disk sync. at 40 MHz, but under Slackware 160 MHz.