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MiniVend is not a lightweight program.
If you are running it on a low-end
ISP whose major selling point is low cost, you will
frequently find that MiniVend performance is very poor. This is due to
either:
- Not enough memory
-
If memory is low, the program will ``swap'' to disk. If lots of swap is
used, you can expect very bad performance. This is the most common speed
problem.
If your
ISP uses
IDE hard disks you can expect
REALLY bad performance.
IDE disks are very slow for multi-user machines, which should have
SCSI if
ANY swapping is to be done.
- Too many domains
-
If there is a huge amount of traffic on the system, then it can run at a very high ``load average''.
IF load average runs routinely above 2, you can expect problems.
- Underpowered machine
-
If it is an old machine, it may be too slow for MiniVend.
A Pentium of less than 100MHz is probably not good
enough unless it is completely dedicated to MiniVend. The faster the
processor, the happier you will be.
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