Re: VAR System Specs

[Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811031302490.19534-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
 aturner@best.com writes:
>I suspect we could use: 
>
>256MB RAM (How memory intensive is mySQL or PosgreSQL?  Should we ask for
>		512MB?  The more memory, the more we can cache the DB's!)
>
>1.5 GB for OS/tools/swap/system logs
>.5 GB for web server logs
>1 GB for "content" like the LDP & the SQL DB backend for it
>4 GB for the ht://dig database (rule of thumb is 4x indexed content)
>1 GB for message boards & database (we can probably use SWISH or Glimpse
>	for this which has much lower disk requirements for it's DB)
>10 GB for RPM Repository Mirror http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
>2 GB "play area" for compiling stuff, etc.
>- ------
>20GB Disk (wow!)

O my god. You're insane. How do you ever expect to fill that? Do you really
think you can leech them for that much?

Er, I mean, yes, that seems quite reasonable. I'm sure we can fill it; it's
just a matter of whether the services we provide will be worth it. But
sure -- I say go for it. :)

>And what about RAID?  We will get daily incrementals and weekly fulls

What Lenz said. :)

Also note the latest ht://Dig release, just now on redhat-announce:
|I've just uploaded the source and i386 binary rpms for the ht://Dig
|web site search engine to incoming.redhat.com, for eventual inclusion
|on contrib.redhat.com.  In the interim, they can be downloaded from the
|SCRC web site, at
|
|        http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/htdig/rpms/
|
|The following RPMs were built on Red Hat Linux 4.2 and 5.0 respectively:
|
|htdig-3.1.0b2-1.i386.rpm
|htdig-3.1.0b2-1.src.rpm
|htdig-3.1.0b2-1glibc.i386.rpm
|htdig-3.1.0b2-1glibc.src.rpm