Issues With New Server Configuration
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mcantelon - Fri, 2008-07-04 20:37
Hi all,
We are evaluating a new server configuration, looking at going from a single server setup to a dual server setup (web server/database).
Our existing server is a Dell PowerEdge 850 with 10K RPM drive (not sure what drive type/RAID config), 1 GB RAM, and a dual-core Pentium 3 GHz processor, 2MB cache.
The new servers are both Sun X2100 M2, 10K RPM SATA RAID 5, 4GB RAM, and a dual-core AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz processor, 1 MB cache.
Performance for static file serving seems to be about half as much on the Opteron as our existing server. Database performance on our new servers are good for reads, but seem about half speed for writes.
Anyone have any scaling wisdom to share?
Cheers,
Mike
Any updates
Hey Mc, wondering if you tracked down any causes for this. I'm curious to know if it was isolated to Drupal or something else. My guess would have been it had something to do with MySQL or whatever your using for databasing... but that's just a guess in the dark.