Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Advise...

[Alexander Wallace]

Cool! I'm liking it! I really trust e-smith with the security, and it
performs marvelously in the servers that I have it installed on, but
didn't know how it would behave in big machines with critical
situations...

Thanks again!

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Gordon Rowell wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:23:39PM -0500, Alexander Wallace 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi there...
> >
> > Can e-smith be used as a serious, expect high trafic, web server? running
> > on a dual processor machine with 1 gig of ram???
>
> Yes. e-smith fully supports SMP machines (assuming your motherboard
> is support by the appropriate RedHat release) and Apache is certainly up
> to high traffic loads.
>
> > Can it also be used as a serious database server (probably db2) running on
> > a quad xeon machine with 4 gb or fam, and 640 GB fibre channel disk
> > array???
>
> Yes, assuming the hardware is supported by the appropriate RedHat release.
>
> You will need to do some post-install customisation as e-smith is designed
> for a single disk or mirrored disk pair install. Large database servers
> tend to run well with lots of spindles, with tables, logs and indexes
> split across those spindles. However, this is no different from building
> a large database server on any other *nix variant.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
> --
>   Gordon Rowell                        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   VP Engineering
>   Network Server Solutions Group       http://www.e-smith.com
>   Mitel Networks Corporation           http://www.mitel.com
>
>


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