Re: Ram needed for production Mysql

[Bryan Irvine <bryan.irvine@kingcountyjournal.com>]

> how about using the box freed up by the new system as your firewall?

Richard has an excellent point here.  If you are running it as bascially
a NAT box that you are serving a mysql-driven website from, the website
will still work if the DB has an internal ip as long as the web-box can
see it.  How about keeping your firewall on the existing box and if it's
the only public ip you have, then use (with caution) ftp and apache on
that?

run top and then from a local machine run the apache benchmark utility
(should be /bin/ab) to watch the load average.

try something like 
ab -n 1000 http://webserver/ 
to send 1000 website requests to the server.


--Bryan