Background

• Our Hardware
  • Four CPU Xeon with 4 gigs of memory (primary database)
  • Two Four CPU Xeon with 4 gigs of memory (readers)
  • Four CPU Xeon with 4 gigs of memory (search, accesslog worker)
  • One single proc with 1 gig of memory for accesslog
  • One single proc with 2 gigs of memory for backups
  • Seventeen Frontend webservers with between 30-120 connections (currently set to 50)
  • 380 requests per second on writers, 600-800 qps on readers
• Arrowpoint