Re: [mv] upgrade server spec

[macky@staktrading.com]

> Try downgrading to 3.14. I think there is a bug in retire_id which
> I will be working on today.

Thanks for all the replies, I really should have given more info,

I tried upgrading to minivend 3.14-3 and perl 5.005_03 to see if that helped.
I am running RH6.0, using the standard gdbm database, apache SSL 1.3.9
I have about 20,000 products which are updated about 3 times a day and  last week
i had  241174 requests.
I am using many functions from the userdb and have added an extra 15 fields for
other features. The products file has about 30 fields also.

>Mike Heins
>Try adding this patch to bin/minivend:

Have put it in. I will let you know tomorrow if it has been successfull.

>Racke
>A typical solution is to run the database server on one host and MiniVend
>and the web server on the other host. How much traffic gets your
>server ? Have you tried other tuning measures ?
No, i have updated as many packages as seems relevant but not done any fine tuning
(i dont know whrere to start)


>Kyle Hayes
>Lucky you!
;-]

>We have a P-II 400 with 256MB of RAM that was quite sluggish until I
>realized that Linux was not recognizing most of the memory.  It thought
>that it had only 64MB of memory, not 256.  When I added the appropriate
>entries to LILO, the server immediately started responding much more
>quickly.  MV and MySQL use a lot of memory when they are running under
>load.

Had this problem once, I found that when i installed with all of the memory
installed, it found it fine.

>It is not hard if you take over the order number generation system.  That
>is really the only problem with having separate machines.

I may try this by mounting etc on nfs.

>One of the nicest feature of a pile of PCs is that if one dies, the others
>just keep going.

Good Point.


I think i will go the MySQL route on a seperate system and see if that helps. Then
try adding systems running from the same database.

I will let you all know what I find. As a PC supplier, I have access to lots of
hardware to play with. :-)

Thankyou all for your advice.

Macky..