<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks to all of you for your suggestions.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>And shana tova.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Valery<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Marc Volovic <marcvolovic@me.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Valery Reznic <valery_reznic@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 25, 2011 5:38 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: HW/SW for license server<br></font><br>
<div id="yiv1144079653"><div><div>4th is 4gb with iPhone autocorrect. Fuck apple. </div><div><br></div><div>DL1xx is is HP. Check their site. </div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; direction: ltr;">>1000/sec is special</div><br><div><span class="yiv1144079653Apple-style-span" style="">Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div><div><br>On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:25, Valery Reznic <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:valery_reznic@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:valery_reznic@yahoo.com">valery_reznic@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><span>Thank you, Mark.</span></div><div><br></div><div>A few more questions:<br><span></span></div><div><span> - what is </span>HP DL1xx-class box with 4th ram</div><div>- 6 request/second is trivial. On
each ratio do you think it will need something special?</div><div><br></div><div>Valery<br></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Marc Volovic <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:marcvolovic@me.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:marcvolovic@me.com">marcvolovic@me.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Valery Reznic <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:valery_reznic@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:valery_reznic@yahoo.com">valery_reznic@yahoo.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 23, 2011 12:03 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: HW/SW for license server<br></font><br><div id="yiv1144079653"><div>Dear valery,</div><div><br></div><div>6 requests per second is trivial. Get the cheapest HP DL1xx-class box with 4th ram and the cheapest CPU you can manage. </div><div><br></div><div>M<br><br><div><span class="yiv1144079653Apple-style-span" style="">Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div><div><br>On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:19, Valery Reznic <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:valery_reznic@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:valery_reznic@yahoo.com"></a><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:valery_reznic@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:valery_reznic@yahoo.com">valery_reznic@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Hi, All.</div><div><br></div><div>I need to setup
license
server and looking for advice what hardware/software to use<br></div><div><br></div><div>General schema is following:</div><div><br></div><div>There are about 20K clients all of them periodically (let say once a week) query license server for license via https<br></div><div>I'll try my best to spread all those requests over the week, but in worse case scenario all those 20K request can came during 1hour,</div><div>spread relative evenly i.e about 6 request/sec</div><div><br></div><div>When license server get request it query database ~20K records with 2-3 small fields, generate license and return it to client.</div><div><br></div><div>License generation is light - md5sum of the very small input ( few hundreds bytes)</div><div><br></div><div>I think use following
software for it<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. CentOS 6<br></div><div>2. Apache with mod_python</div><div>3. Mysql</div><div><br></div><div>My questions about software are:</div><div>1. License server software is likely to be written in python, hence mod_python.</div><div> If I'll use python as CGI instead of Apache module, will it result in significant performance drop?</div><div><br></div><div>2. How configure apache - what is reasonable settings for MaxClient parameter?</div><div> Any other important settings?<br></div><div><br></div><div>3. Use Mysql or Postgres? Or something else?</div><div><br></div><div>Hardware questions are:</div><div>1. What computer should I use for this task</div><div> i386 or x86-64?</div><div> how much memory?</div><div> disk spaces?</div><div><br></div><div>2. What hosting company to buy this server from?</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have any experience or
suggestions to share?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Valery.<br></div><div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Linux-il mailing list</span><br><span><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" target="_blank" href="mailto:Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il"></a><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" target="_blank" href="mailto:Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il">Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il</a></span><br><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il">http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>