Can one server handle 300Mbps of traffic?
 

Is it possible for one server to handle 300Mbps of traffic?

Check the below server spec. You think it can handle all 300?

Intel Xeon 3.0GHz (single) with 3Gb DDR Ram.
1000 Mbit uplink

I would surely doubt it. Whats disks have you got on it?

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Disks? You mean dive?

1x 300Gb SATA Drive

doubtful or let's say not recommended.... :winkwink:

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No, I doubt it. Raided or with SATA2.. maybe...
What will you use it for? 300mps is alot of BW...

steady 300 megs, no. bursty 300 megs, doubtful. imho you would end up with so much latency that the end user experience would suck. i think anything over 100 megs of steady traffic should be load balenced between mutiple servers....:2 cents:

Yes.

Of course the term "300Mbps of traffic" is completely meaningless and won't help anyone decide if this particular server can handle your needs.

it might if its static content

hardware raid system with a nice size onboard cache. it'll work.

exactly, what kind of content is it?

We have a dual opteron w/scsi raid machine that have pushed a constant 580mbps at a load of 2.80 for nearly 2 days straight.

Your machine may be able to spike to 300mbps, but I doubt it could sustain it. Sata, even SataII don't really perform as well as people think.However, if you have a decent amount of ram and static content... well, lots of variables.

If you are pushing that much traffic, you gotta be making money, so why mess around, load balance across a couple machines... words like raid, scsi, ram, lvs are your friends.

If it's all static content, in a burst, MAYBE. But you should definitly get another 2-3 more like this if you want the user of your website not to be pissed at the load speed

With a 15k rpm SCSI raid 0 I am sure it could do it, and 4gb of ram. However, it could probably only push that much if we were talking about distributing media files and not pics and thumbs.

Brad

Those specs...steady? I would get a load balanced solution over a few servers.
You can hit me up on ICQ if you want to go over anything, deal with hosting also so might be able to help. good luck to ya!

depends on what you are serving, a much shittier box with like a gig of ram, linux and apache 2 can serve images at 300mbits. put php on the box and hellz no 300mbit aint happening

Yes, Linux RedHat Enterprise ES could handle up to 750Mpbs on one server (with some premium hardware) before you start running into limitations.

Anthony

i couldn't agree more! :thumbsup but only if CPU could handle that! :D

It's a moot point having a fast HD if the heads are having to madly seek all over the place... you can count the days before it fails dramatically. :1orglaugh BTW even though the SATA 1 interface can push through 1.5Gbps the drive itself most likely cannot.

If you're serving a limited set of content (say only a gig or two) then a file system in RAM would be one option to consider.

Personally I would go for the multiple server option, if you're pushing out that rate of data then it's probably something reasonably important; what happens when the server fails?

If you have 2 drives and spread the load amongst them, yes, you can push 300Megabits on 1 server.

We have, in the past, had servers pushing 600Mbps steadily, for weeks and months on end.

They were equipped with 4xHDD's, 4GB RAM, and Single Xeon CPU's.