How much can my server handle?

Hi,

I have a Dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz server with 1 GB ram.

I run a php script that takes like 8 MB and one apache process is like 18 MB.

Does that mean that I can only have about 45 users at the same time browsing my site?

I tried running a benchmark tool that creates 50 connections and does 10 requests each per second and pretty much froze the server for a while.


My idea is that it only means that 40 people can download files at the same time but how often is it that 40 people actually downloads files at the same second? Wouldn't that mean that I had like over 1000 visitors at the moment?


Any ideas are apriciated.

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

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