Shootout at Mortality Test Stats?

[2WS-Steve]

Hola folks; I was just hoping that we'd see a post (or maybe something on the main page) about the stats for the server-meltdown experiment. Things like total threads, page-views, posts, searches (if they can track that), highest server CPU temperature hit, etc.

 

[Morrus]

I have yet to talk to Adlon about it. All I know so far is that the server bore up, but really showed the strain. That said, it was dealing with about 800 new registrations in one day.

Adlon, at least, knows that he needs to upgrade his server sometime soon.

 

[2WS-Steve]

That was a great test. I thought it held up pretty well all things considered; people doing searches for the 1000 most popular words and all...

If that method does solve the problems it'd be a good thing. Mortality's radio interviews are great and with a bank of high-powered, handcrafted, gamer-maintained servers backing the site ENWorld could finalize it's plans for multiversal domination.

 

[Quickbeam]

It really was a great idea. There were a few kinks, and the site definitely began to sag under the weight of all our traffic, but overall a fine experiment!

 

[Adlon]

Heya guys. Good job today. You all kicked my sites ass, and even tho it buckled, it hung in there. A few sqo errors, and SLOW as heck, but, good job.

IT tells me AND Morrus a few things.

IT tells me that I need an upgrade for Mortality soon.
IT tells Morrus that he does not need a RAID array for his server.

Simply, a good strong server, with a good bit of RAM, and a strong forum package.

For your information, I will now divulge my server specs here:

CELERON 450 Mhz
128 MB PC-100 SDRam
15 Gig Fujitsu 5400 RPM HD
Any old Motherboard I had laying around.
10/100 MB NIC (Realtek 8139 series)
250W Power Supply

OS: Linux Slackware 7.1

Apache, mySQL, and PHP all the latest versions.

My bandwidth: Dual load balanced T1's, with a 10MB Connection to the LAN/T1's, and about 350 feet away, is the OC3 at the Local Telco. This is a Sprint backbone, peering with UUNET in Atlanta.

I must say, I'm proud of my little server. And, I have about 35 webhosting sites on it, 10 of which are busy, 3 of which are
E-Commerce sites. Plus, with all you guys there, you ALL had to register, and the registrations were essentially all at once.

Some of you had validation link errors, but, for the 500 + people who signed up today, I only got about 10 or so emails, and Morrus got about 20 or so, so, the forum package I'm using is not too shabby either, tho I am going to go to another system soon.

I will be getting with Morrus, and seeing if we can hash out a solution. The forum pacvkage I'm going to is viewable at:

Again, thank you all. You've shown me that my little box is tough for the 450 Mhz of RAW processing POWER that it is.

You guys may feel free to visit again anytime, tho please, for awhile, NOT ALL AT ONCE

 

[EricNoah]

I also thought it was a very worthwhile test -- gives me confidence that a solid, reliable solution is out there somewhere.

 

[Mark]

I think we gave it a pretty good work out, for sure!

Sounds like it showed you what you guys needed to know.

Thanks for putting the plan together!

 

[coyote6]

Mark, did you ever get through the 1000 words?

 

[Omegium]

Adlon, you should be proud for certain on your server. If I recall correctly, the servers the ENforum runs on are faster. What is the reason for that? Is it because you are running other forum software, or because you are running linux?

 

[Liquide]

Adlon, you should be proud for certain on your server. If I recall correctly, the servers the ENforum runs on are faster. What is the reason for that? Is it because you are running other forum software, or because you are running linux?

because the server the forums run on here have something around 2-3 request / second or maybe more if we count the banners and external systems.

Make that an even 4 requests per second to make sure, when the boards are at peak usage during the day.