Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

[johannes@formann.de (Johannes Formann)]

Henrik Heil <hhml@zweipol.net> wrote:

> However the 50/150 concurrent requests are a guess (best i can get for now)
> What do you think is the request-limit with a
> Pentium IV 2 GHz, 1GB RAM, 100Mbit, IDE-disk ?

Since all your files could be cached into the RAM, with a fast webserver
like thttpd a few hundred

> What is the practical throughput with a 100Mbit (non-realtek) NIC ?

I think this depends on your upstream and webserver more than on the
NIC, I've seen Server with more than 40 MBit/s running fine.

regards Johannes