> I'm hammering a Linux machine by placing a high volume
> (1,000,000 hits/day, 500,000 CGI hits/day) web site on it. The box can
> certainly handle the traffic -- it's a dual Pentium II-400 machine running
> on a network with plenty of bandwidth. Yet it dies constantly. I'll
> provide as much information as I can in case someone can help point me in
> the right direction.
>
> Kernel: 2.2.6 with SMP
> Memory: 128MB
> Disks: 9Gig local, 12Gig remote NFS from Irix 6.5.2 and locking on.
> knfsd: 981204-1
>
> The machine dies so hard that the screen goes black and does
> NOTHING. Nothing on the screen, no keyboard input is accepted, no network
> access is accepted. When we recycle the machine, it usually won't restart
> because of file corruption and we need to get someone to the box and run
> fsck on it.
Please try dual Pentium II-400 in _UP_ mode. Problem could go away and
machine should be able to sustain that rate. If this does not help, go
for 2.0.X UP temporarily.
Pavel
PS: If you are not able to sustain rate on UP, I do not think SMP will
help.
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