[K12OSN] server sizing... again
Burke Almquist
balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Mon May 8 12:01:43 UTC 2006
Just make sure /home is on fast SCSI drives in RAID 1, 5, or 10.
Actually, the box with NFS /home and NIS/LDAP doesn't need too much
horsepower in terms of RAM or CPU. 1-2 GB of RAM and a standard
Athlon 64 ought to be more than enough, unless you have a gigantic
setup. It's going to be primarily disk and network bound. All the
servers need GIGEthernet. The LTSP servers (not the NFS/NIS machine)
can get by with software RAID 1 on IDE/SATA disks (you don't even
really need 10k rpm drives here, save that money and spend it on more
RAM). Here you want dual core/ dual processor and lots of RAM. It's
basically an app server. Users aren't writing to the actual disks
here, the only writing is happening in /var in the temp files and logs.
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