The true irony to that machine was that one of my tech guys was telling me the physical limitations of a P3/800 and the PCI bus and how a P3 was incapable of serving over 52mb/sec. He included all sorts of arguments to the contrary as to why it was impossible and that only in lab testing could a P3 ever exceed that.
Less than a week later, a client was hotlinked on some movies and hit 100mb/sec until we could find the source. Hotlinking movies is extremely difficult to track down because the log files for those sites usually are small compared to a normal gallery. At that time, his response was "well, yeah, 100mb/sec for an hour" -- the machine was still quite responsive.
About two weeks after that, the graph above was saved. The client said, we're doing some promotion work on a site, I don't think it'll have much impact. We had another machine ready to throw at it but the client said, after today, it'll be fine.
That machine has run sustained around 70mb/sec several times since -- but had usually hovered around 35-40mb/sec and is around 45mb/sec now. We've offered to upgrade, and are told, please don't change what works.
2005-06-06, 12:31 PM
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