Re: system setup survey

From: David Sisk <davesisk_at_ipass.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:19:03 -0400
Message-ID: <7Ejl3.354$w3.604@news.ipass.net>

Get the laboratory facts from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (www.tpc.org). Realize that the laboratory facts != real-life facts, so divide them by 2 or 3.

Regards,

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David C. Sisk
The Unofficial ORACLE on NT site
http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm

Garrett Casey wrote in message <379367bc.448265141_at_nntp.cts.com>...
>I recently had lunch with two gentlemen who are planning on developing
>a web site that serves information from a static database containing
>200,000,000+ records. They asked what type of system I would
>recommend. I blurted out:
>
>FreeBSD
>mod_perl Apache
>mySQL (except I don't know how it would scale to 200,000,000+
>records).
>
>They have been leaning towards using a Microsoft server with SQL7.0.
>
>I am curious about what system you would suggest for this situation
>and why. The system should be able to withstand a decent amount of
>traffic (2,000,000+ requests a day???). The static database will
>consist of 200,000,000 records (except I don't know the size of each
>record and how many tables).
>
>-Garrett Casey
Received on Wed Jul 21 1999 - 08:19:03 CDT