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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (4615)5/30/2003 11:23:31 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (2) of 5423
 
Yeah, it looks like SI Bob and Matt took SI onto an Atari 16K machine and put it in his bedroom in Kansas. Maybe he should turn the heat up a bit. He is supposed to have migrated to a WINDOWS platform from something that works. Nobody I know who runs servers would fool with NT or Windows unless they are paid to by Microsoft. That could be 80% of the problem right there. SI used to work on Linux, when it was a busy board and there were no discernible hiccups. Another issue is you need a proxy server in massive RAM caches to do this kind of stuff. Squid would do it. MS Windows does not do Squid. I would take the server into Linux or Solaris, use Apache for http or maybe a faster webserver, use Squid with say 5 giges of RAM and use most often loaded queuing algorithm to optimize page loads. This would probably quadruple speed right there.

Part of the problem may be line speed too. SI needs about 4 to 5 T1's in flat out speed 24-7. If you buy flakey psuedo T1's from Sprint you deserve what you get. Those T1's are plugged into other T1's at about 9 T1's per real T1 and maybe 200 T1's per T3 instead of 34. That is how Sprint makes money. With 1000's reading and posting during the day, you need a multi processor boards, about 4 machines, and a real T3 line with a hissy-fit. (HSSFT). People we know run a 1.5 million hit per day server that does video and they run it on a 100 megabit line with 7 servers. Altavista runs on 8 stacked boards with 8 processors per board in two locations, and it is on 4 T3's (or used to be).

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