Topic: What spec is everybody running?

[the_mad_prof]

Hi,

I'm curious, what spec is everyones servers?  

I'm running a PII-400 Compaq deskpro with 256MB ram, 3.2 & 40 GB hard drives and DDS2 tape backup.

Go on, you have permission to flaunt.

J.

[Garfield]

Currently I'm running SME 6 only on one of my development servers, but when I'm done testing and converting some stuff from my websites, I will run it on a P3-600 with 512 MB RAM, 10GB hd. That system currently runs Win2K03 with Exchange 2003 and IIS6, but I want to move back to Linux (have run it before as web/mail server).

[matsk]

Production system:

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Celleron 1.7GHz, 256MB RAM, 2x60 GB Harddrive in software RAID 1 and a DSS2 backup

Development:

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Celleron 2.1GHz, 256MB RAM, 1x120 GB Harddrive

Test system:

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Celleron 466MHz, 384MB RAM, 2x40 GB Harddrive in software RAID 1

OBS
And register your systems at http://counter.li.org/estimates.php !

Or maybee we should modify the script at http://counter.li.org/scripts/ to report vital data to a central machine spec. repository.


/Mats

[Brave Dave]

Horse for Courses

If the server is predominantly File Serving non database files (eg. word processing), then it likely doesn't matter.

But as the users creep up - say 25, with a database app and webmail, 512Mb RAM becomes a necessity, php and webmail is a lot nicer with a proper p4.

certainly, if you want snappy response, you will be rewarded by beter hardware

[matsk]

2-5 users and no heavy db usage so...



The peaks is the antivirus scan's.

My tips is to install MRTG and then collect statistics on machine load and can see trends and predict hardware upgrades, see http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/index.html?frame=http%3A//sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_6.htm.

So a P4 isn't the solution for everyone

But it is also running VoIP on the production system and that can be a trigger for a upgrade.


/Mats

[1111]

ASUS AP1400R (HP lp1000r) 1U
Serverworks LE chipset
Dual onboard LSI U160
Dual onboard Intel 82559
Triple hot swap bays
2 x 866MHz
1.25GB reg ECC
1 x Fujitsu 36GB MAJ3667MC 10K
1 x Seagate 73GB ST373405LCV 10K 16MB cache
1 x Maxtor 146GB 8B146J0 10K
1 x Intel SRCU42X

External 4U:
1 x IBM LTO Ultrium 100/200GB
10 x Seagate 36GB ST336752LC 15K
2 x Intel AXX2HSDRVUG

All in 5U of space. Yes, it's a serious server.

[Brave Dave]

ASUS AP1400R (HP lp1000r) 1U
Serverworks LE chipset
Dual onboard LSI U160
Dual onboard Intel 82559
Triple hot swap bays
2 x 866MHz
1.25GB reg ECC
1 x Fujitsu 36GB MAJ3667MC 10K
1 x Seagate 73GB ST373405LCV 10K 16MB cache
1 x Maxtor 146GB 8B146J0 10K
1 x Intel SRCU42X

External 4U:
1 x IBM LTO Ultrium 100/200GB
10 x Seagate 36GB ST336752LC 15K
2 x Intel AXX2HSDRVUG

All in 5U of space. Yes, it's a serious server.

What do you use it for ?

[1111]

What do you use it for ?

Surfing for pr0n.

I'm sure an intelligent person like yourself will easily be able to judge from the specifications what its possible uses are and therefore not need to ask. A number of those uses concurrently would be accurate.

[arnoldob]

Ran Happy on:
PII 350 256mb pc-100 Ram
Abit BH6 Motherboard
80GB Western Digital SE HDD
2 old NIC's from a box in the Garage
Old Matrox Millenium Video card
Salvaged case with a generic 400w PS
Kinda slow but serviceable. Your basic "garage sale" class PC.

Upgraded last month:
Athlon XP 2000
MSI KM4M Motherboard
512 MB pc2700 DDR
onboard NIC + Linksys Nic
onboard video
same HDD
Antec Sonata Case

Much snappier and nearly silent now. The Antec Case is very, very quiet and has excellent ventilation, I highly recommend it. Cost about $330 US to upgrade for the case /w PS, mobo, ram and CPU. It only supports 4 or 5 users, runs some php pages, 1200+ e-mails per week and a couple of mysql apps. I could have bought a  low end Dell PowerEdge but that would have been around $600.

[PhilV]

At home, PentiumI 133 with 196mb ram and a 20Gb harddrive, (yeah I know, it struggles, but i only use it as a gateway, and rebooting each day does no harm!)

Currently building at work, Pentium 4 3.6Ghz, 1Gb of DDR400 memory, 4x 200GB 8M cache harddrives, (was hoping to mirror and stripe, but that is now looking unlikely), and gigabit lan. (Probably won't be used to it's max, but future proofing never hurt).

As a side note, how can I make some drives hot-swappable? Then I could just use SME's own software striping and then rsync to one of the other disks each night.

Thx,

Phil

[arnoldob]

Abe Loveless had a how-to about using rsync and hot swap HDD's for backup:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/aloveless/howtos/rsync_backup/SME_BackupServer.html

Not sure if that's exactly what your looking for or not.

[mophilly]

Shuttle XPC SFF SB62G2 case
250w power supply
2 x 80GB Seagate Barracuda HD
Intel P4 1.2 Ghz
2 x 512 MB DDR800
Server only config.

Used for mail, 3 web sites, two PHP apps, one c/s application and (almost) Webware for XML-RPC. DBMS includes MySQL and Frontbase, soon PostgreSQL.

[PhilV]

I had a read thru that document, but I was looking for something that would be hot swappable, but it says about haveing to powerdown the server and reboot each time? Or do i have the wrong end of the stick?

Phil

[mbachmann]

Production:

PIII 1 GHZ, 256 MB ECC, CD-Rom, 2x40 GB HD, software raid

used for some 40 clients as gateway, firewall, mailserver, fileserver, virtual pdfprinter (no ideal setup)

Test:

PIII 650, 256 MB, CD-Rom, 2x20 GB HD, software raid, kind of clone

running some groupware, backup

[martinhick]

PIII 366, 192mb Ram, 8gb. 4mb video

Also run Redhat 9.0 server. PIII 366, 512mb ram, 20gb,32gb hardsrives, 16mb video

Fedora core1 client. 1,7 celeron, 512 mb ram, 80gb harddrive, 32mb video