Re: System performance

[Carl <carl@cybermall2000.com>]

Aboubacar Diare wrote:
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from Aboubacar Diare <asd@sykemo.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>     ******
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> I have a little concern about a minivend site i have set up.  the site has
> not yet gone public and even when it does it will only be used by i
> beleive about a thousand people.  knowing that my
> Linux box is not the best out there:  486, 80MB RAM, 520MB hard disk,
> running on Redhat 5.2. pretty pathetic right, well i know my site will
> most likely be very slow.  My concern is that, will my system be able to
> handle this kind of load?
> Can an immediate solution be an addition of RAM for a while or should i
> just forget about this box?
> 
> Thanks ahead for your inputs.
> 
> Aboubacar.
> 

Well you might want to look for some better hardware.  It all depends on 
your catalog and your users.  If having multiple simultaneous users, 
your going to need a better CPU.  I don't think that adding ram will
help you.  You will be running out of CPU first.  However, there is
no reason that you can't use this for development.  You'll be the
first to know that its too slow.  To minimize CPU use take a look
at the static page building.  I haven't done it yet, but I'm planning
on using it on a site that is hosted on a Celeron 333MHz system.
Some of its pages take a few, like 3, seconds of CPU time.  
However, not all pages can be static built.  Things that aren't
static, like searches, still get built by minivend.

The bottom line is that minivend is a resources pig.