Can anyone suggest any server based on your experiences? I am looking at Dell PowerEdge R710 right now.
We have this websites and applications going on right now on one box. I am thinking about migrating to a new data center. And possibly migrating to a new box as well, maybe 2 boxes.
**3 websites** with 10million pages views/month, each page is about 800kb with text and pictures. Most activity is done by logged in users so the database is quite busy all the time. CPU is also intensively used.
**java solr** is running for 2 websites
**memcache** is used
**varnish** is used
**1 wordpress** site
**2 drupal** site with openx advertising engine which could be taken as another site( I think)
**zimbra** mail server
In my current situation, with zimbra mail service not included, all other applications are sitting on one box which is Dell PE2950 with 12GB RAM, 2 CPU, Duel Quad Core Xeon E5405, 6 SAS drive. During high hours, load will be going up from 6 to 9,sometime 17, just sometimes.. mysql is taking shared memory around 5G with 250% CPU occupation, java solr and memcache is also taking memory a lot. Luckily, there is still 1.5GB mem free left
top - 18:02:54 up 42 days, 5:06, 1 user, load average: 9.74, 8.84, 9.14
Tasks: 409 total, 7 running, 401 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu0 : 33.7%us, 5.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 53.7%id, 6.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 30.2%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 36.2%id, 31.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 35.1%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 51.0%id, 9.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.7%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 24.3%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 66.7%id, 5.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu4 : 33.9%us, 3.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 55.8%id, 5.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.7%si, 0.0%st
Cpu5 : 48.2%us, 3.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 2.3%id, 44.2%wa, 0.3%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st
Cpu6 : 32.3%us, 3.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 54.3%id, 8.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.7%si, 0.0%st
Cpu7 : 39.5%us, 3.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 49.2%id, 6.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 14366336k total, 12280416k used, 2085920k free, 308392k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 1072k used, 2030536k free, 3076812k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
309 mysql 15 0 2510m 1.7g 5080 S 110.8 12.5 1325:25 mysqld
350 nobody 15 0 1857m 1.7g 380 S 7.3 12.1 49:48.39 memcached
7319 root 18 0 1558m 1.0g 9016 S 3.3 7.6 8261:03 java
7322 root 18 0 803m 225m 9016 S 0.0 1.6 352:50.95 java
19692 clamav 34 19 178m 133m 6128 S 0.0 1.0 2:21.83 clamd
13013 apache 15 0 520m 77m 57m S 0.0 0.5 0:13.72 httpd
14643 apache 15 0 525m 75m 51m S 0.0 0.5 0:09.30 httpd
11923 apache 15 0 523m 75m 52m S 0.0 0.5 0:22.67 httpd
14858 apache 15 0 523m 74m 52m S 0.3 0.5 0:06.08 httpd
14663 apache 15 0 523m 73m 51m S 0.3 0.5 0:06.10 httpd
14655 apache 15 0 518m 72m 55m S 0.0 0.5 0:05.64 httpd
