What spec is your server?

decrease789 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:28 pm Post subject: What spec is your server?

I have a:

I run:

whats yours?

I am having problems with horde it takes ages to load a page the load appears to be on the amount of available RAM available to apache2. Do you think I should upgrade the RAM or upgrade the RAM and processor (500Mhz pentium 3). I think I can get away with just upgrading the RAM, as it is only a personal webserver anyway, I am not going to get a lot of hits.

What do you think I should upgrade RAM or processor OR both?

____*EDIT*______
resolved now i have 92MB of RAM and it runs fine

baak6 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 141

I have a:

AMD Athlon XP 2500+
768 MB RAM
10GB mounted as / (ext3)
28 GB mountedas /home (ext3)
+ Network filesystems and /boot :-)

And I'm running:

courier-imapd
sshd
courier-pop3d
mysql
samba
vixie-cron
courier-imapd-ssl
courier-authlib
oidentd
apache2
apcupsd
saslauthd
pure-ftpd
postfix
courier-pop3d-ssl

I would add both if I were you (that's just me :-P

)...but what you have should be enough if you don't get many connections to your server. :-P

hds · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject:

i would just update the RAM. 32MB now, well, thats nothing. well, if this isnt enough you could still upgrade the cpu later, no? however, i dont think thats needed.

decrease789 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject:

yeah 32MB..... it's a bit

! but i say if it can handle servering with that then it's fine..... however.... it can't!!! I was just wondering whether php 5 is processor intensive.... i wouldn't have thought it was THAT intensive, i would imagine it uses a lot of RAM though.... well when i say a lot.... i mean more than 32MB!

I would be interested to hear from people running the email services i am running as these are the slowest. Particularly horde, as i mentioned

hds · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject:

well, if its a personal webserver only ( i guess, you share services with your friends, just a handfull of them?) go for the RAM first of all. no way with 32MB!!
i do not run horde, but run a personal service for me and my wife, and my old 500MhZ AMD-K6-2 with 3x128MB does fine in any departement. router, fileserver, and whatnot.
OTOH i wonder why anyone would use "horde" for a personal service

btw.. what does all of this has to do with "networking & security"

btw2: why do you invest that much diskspace just in /var, while leaving the 3GB for all the rest

btw3: for such an old beast, go kernel 2.4.x

decrease789 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:37 pm Post subject:

because horde offers other applications other than webmail and i would like an integrated web system, instead of a mix and match.

1. well if you can think of a better section to but it why dont you suggest one.
2. i invest 80GB's in /var because that is where I have choosen to put my wwwroot containing all my webspace, backed up file space, emails etc... Why would i need more than 3GB for the rest of the drive if nothing other than the OS and apps, is there?
3. Why not use 2.6? It works fine. Nothing wrong with my 2.6 kernel. I see no reason to go for an older kernel if the newer one works fine. I don't have many things compiled in or as modules

tuxmin · l33t Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 838 Location: Heidelberg

The point is that kernel 2.4 needs lesser RAM! Maybe you can stick with 32MB with 2.4.
What tells you "cat /proc/meminfo" when your system is up and sreving requests?
I assume there is quite some swap in use...

Alex!!!
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decrease789 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject:

I have 64MB of swap. when idle......

hds · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject:

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decrease789 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:25 pm Post subject:

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This link should appeal to stats freaks... :lol:

hds · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject:

hds · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject:

Arainach · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 609

2x Opteron 240 @ 1.4Ghz apiece
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2x 80GB 7200RPM SATA Drives
Kernel gentoo-2.6.9

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decrease789 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject:

when i said integrated, i meant i wanted all my personal notes, emails, tasks, etc all integrated.

Not with a CMS as well. Which is what phpnuke is primarily meant for

I doesn't seem right to me. Mixing a CMS with something that is unrelated. It's like mixing evolution with apache. I suppose it might be nice, IF you like that kind of thing, but it's all personal taste and thats what this is all about, I like horde! We are all different in the open source community and that is what is so gr8 about the software we produce, it is diverse and there is something to appeal to everyone!

At the end of the day horde is not the problem PHP is and that in itself is not the problem. The problem is, is that I don't have enough RAM to cope with PHP requests. So, we could have this conversation about phpnuke and horde all day, but it doesn't matter which one i chose I still have the same problem.

Yes, you could say IF I loaded phpnuke on there MIGHT be a possibility that it works fine, but I COULD sit here ALL day and hypotheorise situations, but I am not going to! So say hello to your friend below

and I will say adeiu and goodbye to this conversation about horde and phpnuke!

Bween · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 24

Pentium 4 2.4GHz
768MB ram
80GB segate barracuta 7200
Sweet $10 mouse

As for gentoo:
not quite working yet.

trellis · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 22 Location: UK

Pentium Pro 180MHz
256MB RAM
3.2GB HDD + 1.0GB HDD
3c905 LAN card

Do I win the prize for the cr*ppest CPU?

decrease789 · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject:

your sure do win a prize for the cr*ppest CPU!

U get a triple :lol:

smilie!

i'll pm u about how well your server works.... i'm interested having such a cr*p CPU myself

petlab · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject:

I had a 386 with 4 megs running bsd, but that was dumb.

Odd: A Dual Pentium Pro 200 with 256mb ram and a scsi 2gb, with dual gigabit on Gentoo.

Now - 1u dual opteron 246 with 6gb ram and 300gb raid 10 on 3ware. It runs Gentoo hardened / grsec and I'm still developing its services.

wmartino · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 140

I am running:

Dell Poweredge 400SC
2.4 ghz p4
2 gigs of ram
1 - 60 gig ide
1 - 250 gig ide
4 - 200 gig ide

Using for Email and Webserver. I also have all of my movies and music streaming through out my house with it.
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250g Windows XP PRO -- Liteon DVD, Pioneer DVR-111D DVD-D/L-RW

decrease789 · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:22 pm Post subject:

cbock · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

athlon xp 2500
512mb ram
3ware 7000-4 raid controller
4x200gb seagates in a raid 5

i'm running:
webserver (apache and tomcat)
cvs
sftp
ssh

cbock · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject:

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