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Nginx: could not build map_hash, you should increase map_hash_bucket_size: 64

I need to use redirect map with quite a lot rules (2k+ lines, file size is ~200K) I have the following settings in nginx: map $uri $new_uri { include /etc/nginx/conf.d/redirects.map; } server { listen 80 default_server; …
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Proper Sizing for PDU's/Power in Rack

I've struggled with sizing my power sources and associated PDU's in my server racks. Somehow I feel like I'm way oversizing things based on nameplate requirements on power supplies. My simplistic approach is to look at the nameplate draw on my…
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Load-testing tools for Active Directory?

Are there any tools out there that can torture-test and measure AD performance? We're looking at a fairly major expansion of our environment (think tens of thousands of computers) that will throw lots of transactions at our AD environment. We…
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How much horsepower is needed to have 100Mbit/sec OpenVPN throughput?

My small ALIX machine is not coping with the new demand for OpenVPN throughput I have. So I'm looking to replace it. Problem is, I don't have any experience with hardware sizing for OpenVPN. I'm looking for something that satisfies this profile: =…
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Tomcat and nginx sizing

I manage an application that is deployed on Tomcat servers, with nginx in front, as a reverse proxy. I need some help for the sizing of thread pools / connection pools / ... I find quite a lot of documentation describing the different parameters…
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Shift+E to change units in top does not work

I want to toggle the sizes top shows. top -M does work, but when I try to toggle the sizes after top has opened using shift+E (as some suggested) it does not work. Why is that and what is the alternative? I will appriciate any help!
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How would one go about sizing hardware and disk space for a nagios server installation?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? We need to configure a nagios installation to monitor our infrastructure. As in any project, the first step is figuring out the hardware and storage requirements, so that we can…
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OpenVPN Hardware Requirements

I am planning an new network. All the traffic coming out of this network will be fowarded into a VPN in order to exit out onto the Internet on a distant server. This will be done via OpenVPN. There will be only one tunnel. We're looking at a very…
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Choose the right hardware to build a squid proxy server (200 users)

I need to prepare a squid proxy server for my company. We have a new fiber connection (100 mbit) and I need to give access with user and pass, speed up navigation with caching and do a little web filtering. The only thing that I would really care…
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How many instances of rails can I run on one server?

I'm a developer trying to determine the best way to approach a rails app. I need to provide some options for deployment and am trying to minimize both development costs and long term hosting costs. Consider a site that allows multiple authors to…
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How should I size a server that will run several virtual machines?

possible duplicate: Assessment & Planning Toolkit I'm planning to rent a dedicated server from our provider that will host several services (SVN, LDAP, etc) each as a dedicated virtual machine. I guesstimate there will be between 5-10 servers,…
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Somewhat powerful server needed for computationally expensive stuff

So here's my problem. My Dad runs a company that does some rather computationally expensive stuff. This is not supercomputer level stuff, but it does take several hours to run the average job on his Core i7 desktop. He asked me to look into a way…
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storage sizing for serving high bit rate video

I'm looking at deploying a server for high bit rate video streams up to 250 Mbps. There are 8 clients in the network which at any given point may be playing any given stream, so a worst case scenario is 8 x 250 Mbps or 2000 Mbps. How would I go…
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SQL Server Sizing

I need to create a design to meeting the following requirements for a coupon system coupons to be issued every 6 weeks each issuance will give approx 90m coupon instances coupon instance record can be deleted once it's over 6 months old total…
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How do you size a server for PHP?

Can someone provide references / guidelines on how much server (memory/CPU) an installation of vanilla PHP would require for a given workload ? I've been looking at the Amazon EC2 instance sizes http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#instance and it made me…
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