Hi,

Was wondering how many people are running pound on million+ hits per 
day, without error.

Thanks,

Jimmy

Jimmy Brake wrote:[...]

WordPress.com is currently putting about 950/reqs a second through pound.
[...]

Jimmy Brake wrote:[...]

Stefan Lambrev wrote:[...][...][...]
meaningless without knowing what hardware you're throwing at it?

Dave.

Richard Wilson wrote:[...][...]
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Was wondering how many people are running pound on million+ hits
per 
>>> day, without error.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jimmy
>>>[...][...]
Pound itself doesn't require a lot of resources :)
I run it on pretty old dual processor pentium4*
2x CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2388.05-MHz 686-class CPU)
2MB RAM
But this server have few other apps on it that create the load.
The most CPU greedy process is syslogd (I use it to log all events from 
pound)

So if you want a balancer old pentium4 + 512/1024MB ram (something 
slower then most workstations today ;) )
should do the job perfectly.


* Two single core processors.

P.S. you can aways experiment with htperf or other web benchmark to see 
how it works for you.

We're running Pound on dual Opteron Sun Fire hardware, we currently have
180+ active Backend server definitions in our configs, running over 11
virtual interfaces, hosting 60+ unique web services/applications.

Most of our useage, being a service provider for the university,
consists of a lower number of individual users, but much longer sessions
and 'harder' hits than public systems.

One of our main systems is a VLE / E-learning environment for our
medical students - it averages 2.8 million hits and 75gb+ of bandwidth a
month; quite impressive for a system with an extremely limited number of
users (< 2000).

We have around 6 applications of that sort of level, with the other
40-50 web applications being smaller; on the order of several hundred
thousand hits each, at the most.

Pound is doing SSL offloading for approx 1/3 of our web applications.
Around 3/4 of our applications are Zope based, with the remainder either
static html, or php/perl from Apache. Pound makes setting up and
clustering Zope systems extremely easy.

 John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist
-==========================================-
 School of Medical Education Development 
 Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing
 University of Newcastle

 Email : j.p.snowdon(at)ncl.ac.uk
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Hi Richard,

We are thinking of using a single core 3000+ AMD 64 with 2 gigs of ram, 
running Ubuntu.

Several people have responded(I have been on the road the last few 
days), thank you all very much.

Jimmy


Richard Wilson wrote:
[...][...]
>>>
>>> Was wondering how many people are running pound on million+ hits
per 
>>> day, without error.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jimmy
>>>[...][...]

Jimmy Brake wrote:[...]

You should really get dualcore, no matter what.
[...][...]
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Was wondering how many people are running pound on million+
hits per 
>>>> day, without error.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jimmy
>>>>
>>> I have ~7K requests per minute through pound.
>>>[...][...]

ok, will do

RedShift wrote:[...][...][...][...]
>>>
>>>> Jimmy Brake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Was wondering how many people are running pound on
million+ hits 
>>>>> per day, without error.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jimmy
>>>>>
>>>> I have ~7K requests per minute through pound.
>>>>
>>> Cool, but on what hardware? Surely statements of req/sec are a bit
>>> meaningless without knowing what hardware you're throwing at it?
>>>
>>> Dave.
>>>
>>>[...][...]