On Jan 12, 2004, at 16:23, Brion Vibber wrote:
Our present alternatives for database duty are:
As a reminder, we're not talking here about future machines to get, but
about what's in the racks and online *right now*.
* Carol (currently idle) with a SCSI drive that's
too small for the
whole database.
Ran memtester and managed to kill the poor dear. Carol initially had an
overheating problem and crashed soon after installation. Jason fiddled
with the case and placement to improve airflow, but unfortunately this
may not be enough. :(
Scratch Carol off the list for now. Carol's also got 4GB of RAM which
would be _very_ nice to have up and running, assuming it all works!
* Susan (currently idle) with another IDE drive
that's likely not the
fastest.
Susan hasn't died during memory testing yet (yay). However it's a
smaller machine with only 512MB of memory as well as the ide disk. Not
ideal for database, though this might be sufficient to offload some
work.
I won't touch the databases just yet...
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)