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Ok, maybe that was it? Bottlenecks! They just keep moving.
Posted on 10/05/2004 9:24:10 PM PDT by John Robinson
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To: John Robinson
We run on PFM
Pure F'n Magic!!!
Becki
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:36:48 PM PDT
by
Becki
(Pray continually for our leaders and our troops.)
To: Keith
Well, suffice it to say, those are some busy servers! Here's what my computer's top readout looks like for comparison:
top - 00:32:31 up 53 min, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.21, 0.07
Tasks: 65 total, 1 running, 64 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.7% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 507040k total, 229372k used, 277668k free, 8616k buffers
Swap: 987956k total, 0k used, 987956k free, 156392k cached
Small wonder the FR servers were smoking...
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:38:06 PM PDT
by
Ex-Dem
(http://www.bugmenot.com <-- bypass those registration forms on news websites)
To: John Robinson
Pretty good load on that box! Our load wasn't nearly that high and we replaced it with
this (with dual Opteron 246s) - it'll arrive on Friday. Can't wait... We've been running Mandrake 8.1 for a couple of years and are switching to SUSE.
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:40:11 PM PDT
by
scripter
(Thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
To: LibWhacker
I'm unhappy the consumer brand Pentiums are no longer SMP capable. They were always good for a cheap dual box. These servers weren't bad though, around $2,000 a pop. Wish they had more memory, though.
Memcached is hungry.
To: hatfieldmccoy
fair nough...
<crawls back into his hole thoroughly Cheney-spanked...hehe.
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:42:18 PM PDT
by
Keith
(JOHN KERRY...IN VIOLATION OF ARTICLE III SECTION 3 OF THE US CONSTITUTION)
To: John Robinson
John, you are a cool dude. Keep it up.
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:42:23 PM PDT
by
old-ager
To: John Robinson
I never understand this computer lingo. Are we supposed to bookmark one or the other? I am so confused!
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:43:52 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
("John Kerry reporting for spitball and typewriter duty.")
To: Keith
Ignor that one hardnose poster -
I didn't understand much of it either but I'm glad he(the operator) knows what it is that needs doing when things go wrong - this site is great and it would be a big blow if we lost it, in my opinion -
just my thoughts - take care now -
To: scripter
That looks fun. I have no experience with AMD but have been meaning to give them a try.
To: John Robinson
Nice Try John, but we all know it was Bush's fault.
Look for Brokejaw to report this tomorrow as another example of Political Jihadery..
On a lighter note. Thanks for all you do in the background to let us, the Pajamahadeen take serious advantage of your skills in getting this site to keep running.
Keep up the great work, and I appreciate you letting us make this a part of our home as well.
Regards,
Joe
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:49:07 PM PDT
by
Sonar5
("Global Test" - 2004 = "I'm an Internationalist" - 1970)
To: ladyinred
To: Pete'sWife
I bought a new computer. I could actually hear the gears grinding. The synchromesh thingie was shot. You should take it to one of those shops with the sign:
Computer Spin Balancing
Take your computer in there and have it spin-balanced. That'll take care of the noise.
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:50:46 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: John Robinson
While we're all speaking techie here, I've been dying to ask you what your database backend is. I assumed it was Oracle. I'm guessing it wouldn't be MS SQL Server for the load. How big is your database?
I'm an experienced & certified Sybase DBA, also working a little with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server (the latter being the same as Sybase at one time). Hence the curiosity about your database.
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:51:37 PM PDT
by
plushaye
(President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
To: John Robinson
We considered the Apple G5 with duals (on FreeBSD) as well, just too much money, and Dell was another $900 or so, wo we went with the Opteron's (just over $3500) with a terabyte of data. If high tech picks up we'll need a number of 'em.
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posted on
10/05/2004 9:57:18 PM PDT
by
scripter
(Thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
To: John Robinson
I have no idea what you said but the flaming icon gives me some idea. And I could log into Free Republic tonight when 4 years ago I had trouble getting in on a busy night so I'm happy!
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posted on
10/05/2004 10:00:27 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(Save a Democrat! Vote Republican!)
To: John Robinson
(three Dell ((cough)) PowerEdge 1750 servers each with dual 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processors and 1 Gigabyte of RAM.)
Damn If I had that much computing power......oh I'd probably waste it playing 3D shooters and downloading .....nevermind.
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posted on
10/05/2004 10:01:31 PM PDT
by
edchambers
(Where are we going and why am I in this hand-basket?)
To: John Robinson
I have no experience with AMD but have been meaning to give them a try. My Hubby and our son, Darksheare, love AMD. Hubby won't buy anything else. I know nothing about computers but I "know" AMD. I hear it all the time. LOL!!!
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posted on
10/05/2004 10:03:03 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(Save a Democrat! Vote Republican!)
To: John Robinson
I am too dumb on the technical side to understand anything you said, other than the general concept. But the meaning of that is clear. You worked as hard and efficiently as possible, to serve the crunch needs of people who poured their hearts out on FR tonight.
That much I understand, and congratulations and thank you.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, "And the Debate Winner is -- Lemony Snicket"
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To: John Robinson
Wow, $2,000 for a dual fire-breathing Xenon server . . . Not bad at all, John!!! Never heard of memcached. That was a cool link, thanks, and I enjoyed reading about it. Man, this technology is moving like crazy. Can't keep up, lol! I'm glad you're keeping up, though. :-)
Really, really good job!
To: John Robinson
John -
Do you have time to post your complete hardware configuration in terms of front-end, back-end, database, etc. servers, memory, disk, and bandwidth? (I probably have enough hardware to replicate the site, but assume that I suffer on bandwidth)
Also - is your setup something that might lend itself to a backup site - i.e. is there a way to keep the database in sync between two different sites?
-tb
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