[Xitami] Disuccsion: Xitami load testing

[rpo]

Hello all -

I am running standard version 2.4d9 - it seems to be very stable for me and
I have very little to no crashes with this version over the last several
years.  However, I will be starting up a business soon that potentially
could have thousands of hits a day, and hundreds of Megabits, if not a few
gigabits, of traffic per day.  There will only be two domains on the server,
each domain will be bound to its own IP address and each IP address will
have its own copy of Xitami running on it.  Each Xitami won't have any
virtual domains attached to it.  I am interested in knowning others
experiences with load issues, connection issues, etc etc. with Xitami?

Where can I expect problems?  How far can Xitami be pushed before it boggles
down, slows to a crawl or utlimately crashes?  What areas of the Xitami
config - or even on Win2K Adv Server - can I optimize to get the most out of
this server?  To handle the most load?

I have a pretty robust physical server:
    Pentium 4, 2.8Ghz
    4 gig of DDR2 5300 memory (800mhz)
    800Gig harddrive storage mirrored (so 800Gb/800Gb)
    SCSI controller
    Seperate OS hard drive
    Dual Gigbit NIC cards bound together sharing same IP address
    Win2K Advanced Server
    Xitami v2.4d9

Hopefully this starts up some good dialogue and we can all begin to get a
perspective on Xitami's performance levels.

-Russel