RE: [cobalt-users] Performance of OSCommerce on RaQs?

["Rick Ewart" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxx>]

> RAQs at 500Mhz and 512Mb+ of RAM and <100 sites are coping fine.
> 
> > I figure these can handle a lot
> >of carts on one server, a lot better than a RaQ. 
> 
> What is a lot?
Well, I was figuring that probably > 75% of the sites would probably be
carts or other dynamically generated sites.

> > Needless to say, for
> >this purpose, they ROCK! I threw Ensim on them and it seems to be
> >working out well.
> 
> 
> I would hope so - have you any idea how many more operations 
> a dual PIII even can punch through compared to a RAQ with a 
> K6 at 450mhz out of the box?  It's MANY times more.
> 
Oh I am well aware, which is why I did it. Didn't want problems, and
that seemed like good insurance. :)

Thanks for the comments, folks. Granted I have the horses now that I
don't really need to do it, but wasn't sure how they would work in a
real world scenario.

Rick