Re: Which Linux Distribution

What about using a Beowolf cluster. We are really interested in a online music stor
but donot have the money. Well -- as per as bandwidth is concerned -  GOOD LUCK. For
us we are not planning to launch it in internet, only planning to serve it through
local cable in Indian metro cities.

Lamar Owen wrote:

> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> [001123 14:33] wrote:
> > > * Timothy J Hitchens <tim@hitcho.com.au> [001123 13:35] wrote:
> > > > That is 4 Million Queries per Second which is 14 Billion 400 Million per
> > > > hour.
>
> > > > This may sound a little big but this is what we will be launching on the 1st
> > > > December 2000 using postgresql and php.
>
> > > What platform is this going to be on?  You will not be able to do
> > > 4 million queries per second with Postgresql on a PC platform.
>
> > You do realize that even a 800Mhz Pentium that the math makes
> > this practically impossible:
>
> Then use Linux for S/390 and PostgreSQL on S/390.  Use big iron for big
> iron tasks.
>
> If he's really expecting this big of load (that would make such a
> cluster qualify for one of the top slots on the TPC-C benchmarks,
> incidentally!), then he should have enough money to buy a largish S/390
> -- after all, the bandwidth to serve the pages of such a large number of
> queries is going to be huge -- even America Online is only serving an
> estimated 28 kilopages per second with their server farm.
> --
> Lamar Owen
> WGCR Internet Radio
> 1 Peter 4:11