On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Tim Starling wrote:
Forgive me if this is a naive question, but why do we
want each server
to be specialised?
Because everyone in the entire universe recommends separating your web
and database servers.
Because load is only expected to *grow*. MySQL's cpu usage is "relatively"
light right now because we've turned off most of the functions that it
really has to churn on.
Additional web servers can be plugged in relatively easily -- if we had
the machines. They eat mainly CPU, and could make more efficient use of
their memory with a distributed cache such as memcached for the easy
stuff - grabbing article text and checking the existence o flinks.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)