server stats

Hey all,

Here's a neat new thing on the dreamhost wiki:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Misc#Server_Statistics

I think the idea is to create an index of the boxes at dreamhost, and their capabilities, similar to what some other hosts have.

- Lloyd

My busiest site has been on a PIII? w00t!
But now it's on an eval server :-(

Oh man, mine's only a 2.0 Ghz Xeon (4 cpu). I'm gonna complain! :-)

Don't you think there's so many servers (and that's only a partial list) that it's impractical to keep up-to-date manually?

Stumbled-on Aside: This was interesting on Netflix's allocation system.

Cheers,

BobS

Because of hyperthreading, the number of procs in a Xeon machine is displayed differently in /proc/cpuinfo. A "4 proc" Xeon is not actually a 4 proc machine, but a 2 proc machine.

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Because of hyperthreading, the number of procs in a Xeon machine is displayed differently in /proc/cpuinfo. A "4 proc" Xeon is not actually a 4 proc machine, but a 2 proc machine.

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I've altered the wiki page to reflect this new information. Thanks, Will.

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Because of hyperthreading, the number of procs in a Xeon machine is displayed differently in /proc/cpuinfo. A "4 proc" Xeon is not actually a 4 proc machine, but a 2 proc machine.

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I just had a thought. Does this mean that machines reported as having 2 processors only have 1?

Servers with processors that don't do hyper-threading (P3 and earlier P4) will report their actual number of processors. We don't have any single processor shared hosting machines.

- Dallas
- DreamHost Head Honcho/Founder

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Servers with processors that don't do hyper-threading (P3 and earlier P4) will report their actual number of processors. We don't have any single processor shared hosting machines.

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Thank you for that information. What's your take on this particular wiki page, Dallas? Nate has indicated (see the associated discussion page) that he thinks it's a waste of time and probably warrants deletion, but I think it is quite interesting for your punters.

> Nate has indicated (see the associated discussion page) that he thinks it's a waste of time and probably warrants deletion,

Hey, you (should've) heard it from me here in this thread first :-)

"Don't you think there's so many servers (and that's only a partial list) that it's impractical to keep up-to-date manually?"

BobS

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Thank you for that information. What's your take on this particular wiki page, Dallas? Nate has indicated (see the associated discussion page) that he thinks it's a waste of time and probably warrants deletion, but I think it is quite interesting for your punters.

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Well, it is unlikely you'll ever manage to get a comprehensive list up and keep it up to date, but it doesn't bother me if you want to try.


- Dallas
- DreamHost Head Honcho/Founder

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but it doesn't bother me if you want to try.

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Since most people have their domains on the same server, it will require a truly collaborative effort to do it.

Okay, I wrote an itty bitty script this morning to generate similar info based on our database.

It won't stay super up-to-date, but it makes me a little more proud of our shared machine count than the like 10 machines users had put up there.

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Server_Statistics

nate.

Nate,

Nice script! But it looks like it's not properly detecting the correct number of processors on xeons (the hyperthreading thing). You may want to /2 the number of processors based on the model name and family (xeon model 2).

Thanks!

- Lloyd

Also, it would be handy to show the memory in Mb instead of kb :)