[ic] hardware for Interchange

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Sat Jul 7 14:43:00 2001


At 08:21 AM 07/07/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Scott Lewis wrote:
>
>SL>>Here's a sample configuration from an unnamed vendor, priced at
>SL>>$1218:
>SL>>
>SL>>Intel i815 EAL motherboard
>SL>>Intel PIII 866MHz
>SL>>512 MB PC133 ram
>SL>>IBM 30 gig 7200 RPM IDE HD
>SL>>Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 card
>SL>>
>SL>>That leaves $300-800 to soup it up for Interchange. How would you
>SL>>prioritize these possiblities (in terms of performance increase/$):
>SL>>
>SL>>more memory
>SL>>SCSI hard drive
>SL>>RAID card and another HD
>SL>>faster processor
>
>That seems like a higher than necessary price for that config.
>
>I quickly found that a 400 mHz machine just wasn't going to do it.
>
>I got a 1.2gHz CPU with 512 megs of RAM.
>
>If I were going to put more money into it, I would add more RAM.
>
>IC makes a lot of it's pages on the fly. Therefore, it needs a lot of
>speed from the CPU. And, the more that it can do that in memory, the
>faster it will be, rather than thrashing around on the hard drive.
>Memory is relatively cheap right now so max it out.
>
>Use that server ONLY for IC and your stores.
>
>Hard drives are only for storage, and a 20 gig drive will hold a lot of
>stores!

Yes, storage - they store IC data which is frequently read and written in a 
busy site. So wide SCSI is a good investment if you can swing it.  At the 
very least make sure you are getting a fast IDE/ATA interface and disk 
combo, there is some variation out there.

- Ed L.


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