WHat kind of server for this load?

[Jan Houtsma]

For example if i have a webforum that has to deal with say 200 messages a day with several 10th of members logged in at the same time maybe 10 messages being posted simultaniously, what would be a typical server that can handle such a load. I don't know if that is considered to be a big load or not. What a bout a PII-233 with 64MB RAM of memory running linux RH7.2.

Can someone give a rough idea what would be needed (maybe some examples, hints)?

Thanks,
Jan  

[Greg Robson]

Here's my attempt at an answer:

YaBB SE on the whole is quicker than the original YaBB but still not as quick as we'd like (we're perfectionists)

This board hasn't been used much for high traffic levels (apart from this forum and a couple of others). Although reports of it being able to handle 50 users being logged in without a significant slow down have been recieved.

200 messages a day is only about 10/hour so it should be able to handle that adequately. Due to the fact that YaBB runs on top of a database 10 'simultaneous' postings should not be a problem.

As for the server specs - no idea - I think that should handle YaBB quite well though.

[Larry_Laffer]

OK. I will give you some experience.

My database has now about 40 MB Size (mySQLdump) and there are often 10 User + connected.

I am using Apache with mod_gzip. The Hardware is:

- Athlon 700 Slot 1 (512k Second Level Cache off Die)
- Motherboard Gigabyte GA7-IX with AMD 750 Chipset

I was running a 256 MB RAM Configuration, but sometime performance was dropping significantilly due to searches done by users. I had to upgrade to 512 MB RAM, since it no problems anymore.

64 MB was possible with YaBB Perl Version, but PHP and mySQL consumes a lot of memory.

Before an HTTP Process took 3 MB and again 3 MB for Perl. Now it takes 15 MB for HTTP and upto 20 MB for the mySQL process....

Here is a look at a TOP statistic:

 9515 wwwrun     0   0 26896  26M 12992 S     0.0  5.1   1:15 httpd
27810 wwwrun     1   0 26528  25M 13032 S     0.0  5.0   2:10 httpd
27807 wwwrun     1   0 23756  23M 13004 S     0.0  4.5   2:02 httpd
  377 mysql      1   0 20488  20M  2120 S     0.1  3.9   1:12 mysqld
  454 mysql     14   0 20488  20M  2120 S     0.0  3.9   0:58 mysqld
  455 mysql      0   0 20488  20M  2120 S     0.0  3.9   0:08 mysqld
 2568 mysql      0   0 20488  20M  2120 S     0.0  3.9   0:00 mysqld
30343 wwwrun     0   0 19044  18M 12988 S     0.0  3.6   0:17 httpd
  355 wwwrun     5   0 18912  18M 12984 S     1.7  3.6   0:16 httpd
32307 wwwrun     0   0 18064  17M 12988 S     0.0  3.4   0:18 httpd
 2443 wwwrun     1   0 17392  16M 12988 S     0.0  3.3   0:13 httpd
10158 wwwrun     0   0 15848  15M 12916 S     0.0  3.0   0:01 httpd
10338 wwwrun     0   0 15568  15M 12988 S     0.0  2.9   0:01 httpd
10016 wwwrun     2   0 15428  15M 13032 S     0.0  2.9   0:02 httpd
 9472 wwwrun     0   0 15276  14M 12920 S     0.0  2.9   0:01 httpd
10527 wwwrun     2   0 15260  14M 12972 S     0.7  2.9   0:00 httpd
10369 wwwrun     0   0 15256  14M 12916 S     0.0  2.9   0:00 httpd
11191 wwwrun     1   0 15156  14M 12976 S     0.0  2.8   0:00 httpd
10030 wwwrun     0   0 14856  14M 12988 S     0.0  2.8   0:01 httpd
11265 wwwrun     6   0 14728  14M 13100 S     0.0  2.8   0:00 httpd
 8841 wwwrun     0   0 14136  13M 13008 S     0.0  2.6   0:02 httpd
10029 wwwrun     3   0 13996  13M 12984 S     0.5  2.6   0:01 httpd
10026 wwwrun     0   0 13980  13M 13004 S     0.0  2.6   0:01 httpd
10688 wwwrun     5   0 13944  13M 13004 S     1.1  2.6   0:00 httpd
10752 wwwrun     0   0 13904  13M 13040 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
10748 wwwrun     0   0 13900  13M 13008 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
11023 wwwrun     0   0 13888  13M 13044 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
10563 wwwrun     0   0 13860  13M 12988 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
10912 wwwrun     0   0 13860  13M 12984 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
10936 wwwrun     3   0 13860  13M 13000 S     0.9  2.6   0:00 httpd
10911 wwwrun     0   0 13856  13M 13040 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
11195 wwwrun     1   0 13856  13M 13008 S     0.1  2.6   0:00 httpd
10951 wwwrun     0   0 13848  13M 13044 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
11127 wwwrun     0   0 13848  13M 13044 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
11186 wwwrun     0   0 13848  13M 13012 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
11269 wwwrun    14   0 13848  13M 13044 S     0.9  2.6   0:00 httpd
11194 wwwrun     0   0 13840  13M 13044 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
11210 wwwrun     0   0 13840  13M 13048 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
11225 wwwrun     0   0 13840  13M 13048 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
11092 wwwrun     0   0 13832  13M 13044 S     0.0  2.6   0:00 httpd
10804 wwwrun     0   0 13148  12M 12876 S     0.0  2.5   0:00 httpd
11270 wwwrun    17   0 13144  12M 12864 S     0.1  2.5   0:00 httpd
11266 wwwrun     3   0 13136  12M 12864 S     0.0  2.5   0:00 httpd
11239 wwwrun     1   0 13132  12M 12868 S     0.0  2.5   0:00 httpd
11234 wwwrun     0   0 13124  12M 12920 S     0.0  2.5   0:00 httpd
11192 wwwrun     0   0 13112  12M 12924 S     0.0  2.5   0:00 httpd
11261 wwwrun     2   0 13112  12M 12928 S     0.0  2.5   0:00 httpd
27795 root      17   0 13008  12M 12896 S     0.0  2.4   0:03 httpd
27796 wwwrun     0   0 11444  11M 10404 S     0.0  2.1   0:00 httpd