On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Alexander Staubo wrote:
Hi all,
Regarding the comments I received, we decided to use following configuration for server. [snip]
Somebody any recommendations?
Python is a real CPU sponge, and for this kind of load I'd definitely bump the horsepower up to a dual Pentium III Xeon 500MHz, 512KB L2 cache. Around $1100 per CPU. That said, however, I don't know how well Linux scales to two CPUs; for web serving, recent benchmarks have pointed out that it doesn't scale well at all.
Linux scales very well to two CPUs in the Zope scenario (the Mindcraft benchmark was with 4 CPUs and 4 NICs running Apache). And kernel 2.4 (which will be out in late fall) will scale *extremely* well (most of the work done was to improve scalability). -Petru