Live Linux

Merrick: serious horsepower, 1997

Data-driven tourism site with complex queries
Needed powerful database engine
Commercial options just too expensive
Merrick, the first Linux server we'd built for all-out speed
- Patched 1.2 kernel
- Symmetrical multi-processor with twin Pentium Pro 200
- Twin RAID arrays
- Postgres 6.3
- Approximately 380 MIPS for under £6,000 in 1997