Re: Best Linux Distribution

On Friday 21 January 2005 07:40, Andrew L. Gould wrote:

We are running a 200 user system off a SUN Fire v40z using SuSE Linux 9.2 for
AMD64.

On average we process a JSP page in 300 ms, country wide and have
approximately 300 tables with over 3 000 000 records in the PostgresQL DB.

I would recommend that you look at any Linux distro that supports 64 Bit
architecture... ...32 bit machines just don't cope so well. :)

Initially we running this off a Win 2000 server running MS-SQL but we could
only support 20 concurrent connections... ...if we were lucky.

I then converted the DB to PostgresQL and moved this to a Dual PIV running
Linux and managed to push the concurrent connections up to 50.

We now can support more then 300 concurrent connections and the server keeps
smiling.

The machine is a quad processor with 8GB of RAM which does not really compare
with the PIV as it is in a league of its own, but if you look at the query
response and page response on a case-by-case basis, you will see that the 64
bit architecture is normally 2 to 3 times faster then a 32 bit machine.

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