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How do you do load testing and capacity planning for web sites?
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How do you do load testing and capacity planning for databases?
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How do you do load testing and capacity planning for databases?
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Sanity check on 40TB server configuration
I've got 40 years in computing, but I've never had to build a server quite like this one, so this might be a n00b question.
I have a client that is going to offer ultra-high def music files for ...
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10/20/40Gbps nginx large files caching webserver [20Gbps reached]
I would like to find out the best possible configuration/hardware to deliver 40Gbps from a single server in this question.
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We have a video share proxy server that offloads peaks from slow ...
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How much data does Linux read on average boot?
I wonder how much data in total does a freshly installed vanilla Linux system (like 32-bit CentOS 5.10) read in order to get to a virtual console shell prompt? You know, reading all the configuration ...
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How much free memory should I have on my webserver? [duplicate]
I have a webserver that's currently hosting two Wordpress sites and some java-based collaboration software. The server has 2G of memory and is currently using about 1.8G of the available memory. ...
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Tmpfs vs NVME SSDs from performance POV [duplicate]
I have a script that creates large temporary files.
I'm inclined to use tmpfs for this, however I did a quick search for tmpfs performance and found this which reports speed as about 2GiB/s.
Modern ...
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Are there any features in Linux that are essential for hosting Ruby on Rails?
I'm on a project where we're going to be hosting a Ruby on Rails app on a Linux server we own. Are all flavors of Linux equally capable of hosting Rails apps? If not, what features are present in some ...
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How to handle 1M websocket connections (Nginx/HAProxy/Amazon/Google) [duplicate]
What nginx or haproxy setup is suggested for target 100K concurrent websocket connections?
What I think, a single nginx will not be able to take such traffic as well as concurrent connections. How ...
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When to Add another server(s) [duplicate]
When is the right time to start adding(or thinking about adding) servers to your Web Application? What are the difficulties involved in going from a single server(DB and Web) to multiple?
For example:...
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How do I understand my CPU usage on a DNS server?
I have read and understood Can you help me with my capacity planning?, but I'm not sure I understand what my next steps are in a DNS server scenario. I think my CPU loads are high or that I might be ...
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Maximum php-fpm threads per one core
I would like to ask how to get the best (maximum) number of php-fpm threads per one core? How to benchmark it (on linux/debian)? And how to recognize that this count is already too much? Thank you.
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How much memory is required for base lamp setup? [duplicate]
I am planning on renting a VPS.
How much memory is required for a base setup of Debian, Apache, Mysql, PHP?
By base, I mean not considering traffic (which will be below 1k hits a day). No ...
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Complete High Availability System [duplicate]
I'm in the process of configuring a LAMP server but want to make sure it'll be ready for expansion for the future.
Here's my current setup..
Two physical windows servers clustered with Hyper-V
Two ...
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terminating connection because of crash of another server process
I have a java scraper that spawns around 1,500-2,100 threads, each of which connects to the same database via jdbc and makes inserts. These threads insert quite frequently.
It seems like the db ...