Hello Charles,
There's a setup with to do it with OpenBSD with ramdisk ala raid, so you can sync it up. I always worry about power loss / memory corruption / heat buildup. The board itself including cache files is maybe I'd say 30-40 megs between HTML and CGI.
I was playing with http_load internally just as a was to attempt to stress the server. I have it pulling up the first 40 threads and another ten or so from the rest of the forum, and then a 1-2 searches. In so far as synthetic benchmarks go the connect speed and transfer rate has gone up 16-20 times with PHP acceleration. I think I've got a 350M IDE flash drive out of an old Cisco CSS11000 Content Server, I should play with that and or get a 500meg solid state disk.
My last question is lets say I move the threads that haven't been touched in 90 days to another forum. In there people may respond to them. Such a time comes later on where I upgrade the machine and I want to re-consolidate all the threads back into one forum. Is this possible to do? And will the fact that people can still post to them mung it up bad?
I've been looking to upgrade to the latest stable version, but I've been reluctant to do so since it's got your spider hack in it and I know it'd
get bopped without PHP acceleration.
One last question, lets say I decide to turn PHP acceleration off for whatever reason, IE I want to run apache chroot'ed in a jail and I haven't gotten PHP setup with static libs properly yet, or there's a security issue with PHP. What will happen to those old bookmarks, and or to the board if I were to turn it off? I seem to see a post furthur down somewheres it was the case and it appeared to create a good deal of havoc?
Thanks,
thepantlessone
