On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:02:22AM -0400, Harald Hille wrote: > One basic question is still unresolved. What are the system requirements > for installing DSpace? Do they include, for instance a server running Linux > (or Ubuntu)? > Our singing group has no formal link to the university, and I suspect that > they wouldn't be interested in letting us use one of their servers (which > may well run under Linux). > So, we will probably have available only something like a relatively > ordinary (could be heavy-duty) desktop (Windows) in some member's house, I > suspect that won't do it for DSpace. > We might have to settle for something much simpler, although I'm not sure > what.
DSpace runs on Windows and is supported in that environment, but I have no experience with that setup. Others here may be able to advise you about things specific to running on Windows. (I run on Gentoo Linux everywhere, because it suits the way I think about system administration, but to each his own.) You'll need a machine with enough storage for your materials plus a bit. You'll need a machine with enough memory to run Tomcat (not very large in itself), DSpace (several gigabytes), Solr (for indexing, more gigabytes), and a database (probably PostgreSQL, since it's free while Oracle isn't free for production use). At work I have all of that running on my office workstation, plus Apache HTTPD (optional), with typically half a dozen DSpace instances (plus their Solr instances) in various stages of development, loaded concurrently. The hardware is an all-in-one desktop box which has about 512GB storage (not much of this devoted to my test DSpace instances) and 16GB of memory. It sometimes feels a bit small, with all that running. Our four moderately busy production DSpace instances actually run in a bit less memory (three in one 6GB server-grade box and one in another at 10GB), but a single DBMS instance runs in a separate 4GB box to serve all of them. If you don't expect a lot of traffic to your site, I'll go out on a limb and say that I would expect okay performance from a desktop box with 4-8GB memory. Storage size will depend on the total size of the materials you want to serve up, but I think it would be hard to find a recent PC that had too little. (I should say here that I'm a cheapskate and tend to size systems on the low side. I hope that someone else will chime in with another estimate.) That's just a starting point. It's difficult to give hard-and-fast numbers for provisioning a new site. One typically starts with a reasonable estimate and then keeps an eye on performance to see whether more capacity is needed, and if so, what one is running out of. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/20200619140335.GA14311%40IUPUI.Edu.
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