[THIN] Re: Sizing NFuse server

  • From: "Alexander Danilychev" <teknica@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:00:00 -0700

Ron,

What is your RAM load per box?

ALEX

>From: "Ron Oglesby" <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [THIN] Re: Sizing NFuse server
>Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:05:32 -0500
>
>
>I run Dual 1.4's with 2 gb each.  These sit behind f-5 Big IP
>controllers, and are all scaled to 1000 per. We have an extra one in
>each site that is hot, and pulled it out for a week to ensure that we
>could handle the load at 1K per server. No probs.
>
>Ron Oglesby
>Senior Technical Architect
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexander Danilychev [mailto:teknica@xxxxxxxxxxx]=20
>Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 1:54 PM
>To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [THIN] Re: Sizing NFuse server
>
>
>1000 per server looks a bit high -- in the morning logins will come in
>at=20
>the same time, so I will lower this number and use 3 load balanced boxes
>for=20
>the same number of users, which will add additional redundancy.
>
>I would rather have 2-CPU boxes -- 2x800MHz will work better as compared
>to=20
>1x1600MHz in your scenario. RAM looks OK, you can probably go lower, but
>1GB=20
>is good.
>
>ALEX
>
>
> >From: "Ron Oglesby" <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [THIN] Re: Sizing NFuse server
> >Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:51:08 -0500
> >
> >
> >Perfect. Depending on how active your users are the rule of thumb is
> >1000 per server.
> >
> >Ron Oglesby
> >Senior Technical Architect
> >=3D20
> >RapidApp
> >Office 312.372.7188
> >Mobile 312.961.2380
> >email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >=3D20
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jensen, Jay [mailto:jjensen@xxxxxxxxx]=3D20
> >Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 12:52 PM
> >To: Thin Client E-mail Group (E-mail)
> >Subject: [THIN] Sizing NFuse server
> >
> >
> >We are doing a round robin between two NFuse servers behind BIG-IP.  We
> >will
> >be loading Windows 2000 IIS 5.0 on these servers and running only the
> >NFuse
> >Web pages.  I feel we will have two servers behind BIG-IP giving us a
> >virtual look of one site.  I feel two NFuse servers will be adequate
>but
> >I
> >am not sure how to size them.  I feel that I don't need much power
> >because
> >the user only uses the IIS servers to authenticate and once the
> >Published
> >Application is executed the IIS server is no longer in the mix.  Here
>is
> >what I feel I need.=3D20
> >
> >             *               PE1650, Pentium III-T, 1.4 Ghz, 512K
> >Cache,
> >Single Processor
> >             *       1 GB RAM Memory
> >             *       36 GB Hard drive, Raid 1 (2nd 36 GB Hard Drive)
> >             *       1.44MB Floppy and 24X IDE Internal CD-ROM drive
> >             *       Type 2 contract - 4-Hour 7x24 contract
> >
> >Does this sound reasonable?  If not, what should I change?
> >
> >Thank You.
> >Jay
> >=3D09
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