First off I would like to say howdy to all!
Although this is more then likely my first post I have to say that I am a regular here and enjoy and appreciate all the information I get off this site!
I wanted to share my story of a UBB 5.x to UBB 6.x upgrade.
BACKGROUND/SITUATION:- FreeBSD Server
- 600mhz PIII
- 384mb ram
- 100,000 board pages views / day
- 20,000 - 30,000 posts /day
- TRIMMED 5000 members (all active)
- Server also serves about 1,000,000 html pages / day
PRE-UBB 6.x- server ram good (still 100mb free NO swap used)
- speed good (well as good as UBB5.x could get
- running all html based forums (except three private forums (CGI))
- Server load between .3 - 1.5 (during peak periods)
- Heavily hacked and modified
Post UBB 6.x Upgrade- server RAM still in good shape (100mb free NO swap used)
- all forums running CGI (nature of ubb6)
- layout, whos online, login, other minor hacks
- server load at 5.00 - 30.00+
- have trimmed 1000+ members
- prune 20,000 messages daily
I wanted to shre this experience because I am hoping some other may have experienced this and have found a way to resolve a high CPU utilization problem. Or maybe just give something for admins with large busy forums to think twice before the upgrade.
Would a 866+ PIII help a great deal or just be like putting bandaid on the fatal wound?
NOTE: I am running the mod_gzip module for apache which helps reduce the server bandwidth from 200gig/month to around 100gig/month.
Thanks for your time!
[ June 01, 2001 02:20 PM: Message edited by: GewGaw ]
