Server Stats

Ibrahim · Apr 20, 2001

Just thought I'd tell you all what we're running on now.

We have a single server running RedHat Linux 6.2

It has a 750mhz AMD Processor (Which hasn't been taken below 90% idle since we started)
256MB Ram (Which is the first thing we'll have to upgrade, in a few months?)
9.1 GB SCSI (The SCSI is what's really helping the Database speed. Every time you click a link in the discussion board it has to access the Database, this speeds it up. AND we can finally keep a whole month of logs on the server at once!)

We're connected a BIT better than we were before. Our server is in San Antonio, which makes it closer to everyone. It's also on:

2 OC-12 Connections
5 OC-3 Connections
4 DS-3 Connections

An OC-12 connection is 620 megs a second. That's the only connection there I'm sure of the speed. So we can transfer atleast 1.2 gigs of data a second. TBN doesn't even come close to that.

Well, that's about all I have to say, I'm still working out the email bugs.

-Ibrahim

Bird · Apr 20, 2001

Our server is in San Antonio

No wonder the great improvement; you moved to Texas!/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird

GlueGuy · Apr 20, 2001

Wow. That's not even a dazzling machine by todays standards. Begs one to wonder what you were running on before. Was the issue memory, processor speed, disc speed, or the size of the pipe? Possibly a combination of all the above?

Whatever the issue was, it sure seems solved now!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif This site is SMOKIN!. Nice work, and excellent job of pushing the appropriate buttons!

Checkin through TBN had been taking quite a while before. I would usually point it to a furum or whatever, then minimize it while I did something else. It now comes back so fast, that I just click through an item at a time, and it takes less than a second./w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

I wouldn't be surprised if you end up with a lot more users on at a time! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

The GlueGuy

Muhammad · Apr 20, 2001

Oh yeah... THANKS to Ibrahim, for making this actually work smoothly. He's been prepping the new server the past two days and is still working at it now as we enjoy a very fast website. When he said at about 5:00 this evening (end of the work day for most) "let's change servers now" I was a little skeptical... heading into peak hours of the posting day. But the only obstacle was transfer being slow on the OLD server, so moving the databases and such took the most time, then the setup of the forum on the new server... all completed within about an hour. Really, direct your thanks to him, because the technical expertise and work he contributes to this site really makes it happen.

As I said in another thread (have a few on the server now /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif), we can upgrade so easily now... within 24 hours, and likely much quicker than that. So far, so good.

DaveNH · Apr 20, 2001

Ibrahim

A post close to home!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

If you're interesed I can sell you a nice Lucent Technologies
400G system, upgradable to 1.6T
4 OC-3 makes an OC-12
4 OC-12 makes an OC-48 (2.5G)
4 OC-48 makes a 10G
80 OC-48 makes a 400G
320 OC-48 makes an 1.6T

This site screams!!

Thanks

We're all in this together! (3)
Executive Ex-Yuppie Tractor Owner
[Advertise your business here]

Ibrahim · Apr 20, 2001

Sure, do you take food stamps?

-Ibrahim

Ibrahim · Apr 20, 2001

That could very well be it!

I even think it's bunkered down to survive a Nuclear attack. But I'd have to check on that.

-Ibrahim

Anonymous Poster · Apr 20, 2001

Ibrahim,

You're gonna need to add a FEL and brushhog to that older tractor model you've got...Dual Pentium Pro 200 /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

AMD & Intel had their price decreases last week... let's go to the 1.3 GB Athlon.../w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Whatever you've done ... You've done well...

Thanks.

Ibrahim · Apr 20, 2001

This same machine would have trouble running the latest games, but fortunately Linux and Apache know how to use a machine very efficiently.

I was doing my darndest to find out WHAT the problem was on our last server. It really came down to having a messed up install of MySQL (Which they couldn't repair for us).

That is my official position on why THAT was broken. The Extra RAM (read: a little more than 10x as much as previous machine) and SCSI is just Icing on the Cake.

I'm watching this new server's memory usage near 100% but that's OK! because we also have Swap and it hasn't even dipped into it yet. (But even a SCSI swap isn't as fast as real RAM.)

This should allow TBN to grow much larger much faster! No pun intended.

-Ibrahim

DaveNH · Apr 20, 2001

Sure,
Got about 4 Million?

We're all in this together! (3)
Executive Ex-Yuppie Tractor Owner
[Advertise your business here]

Muhammad · Apr 20, 2001

<Begs one to wonder what you were running on before. Was the issue memory, processor speed, disc speed, or the size of the pipe?>

Ibrahim answered that, but in final testing and troubleshooting, we got the old server opened up to about 192mb of ram and there was no difference in speed, which told us we really needed a major change to a new provider with a different setup.

Roy · Apr 20, 2001

Our server is in San Antonio, which makes it closer to everyone. Everyone? /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Roy

GlueGuy · Apr 20, 2001

Just checked who's logged on, and you are up to 36 simultaneous users, and still going at least twice the speed as the old server with 15! I could get used to this! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

The GlueGuy

Muhammad · Apr 20, 2001

The old server is in Seattle. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Muhammad · Apr 20, 2001

Yeah, as time goes on the number of users online keeps going up... hopefully with the faster performance, more will stick around. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

BobT · Apr 20, 2001

Glueguy,

Don't forget that there are probably another 30-50 users also accessing the regular web site while the forum runs. There are a number of scripts on the web site that also bang on the resources. But as far as I can tell the new setup is handling it all with grace and aplomb!

BobT.
A Indiana Boy

RobS · Apr 21, 2001

Oh yeah... THANKS to Ibrahim, for making this actually work smoothly... Really, direct your thanks to him, because the technical expertise and work he contributes to this site really makes it happen.

OK, here goes... Thanks so much Ibrahim. Your profile lists a tractor model I'm not that familiar with but I sure am thankful your hobbies include computers etc. What you've done to this site is more than any turbocharger could do for my tractor! Thanks /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Knight9 · Apr 21, 2001

Ibrahim,

Thanks for the great work with the hardware/software. Site screams now /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

but Our server is in San Antonio, which makes it closer to everyone....I'm pretty sure that Seattle is closer to Alberta than San Antonio /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif!!

Regardless of location though...I'm one happy Canadian forum member!!

Thanks,
Kevin