On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:41 +1030, Steve Thomas wrote: > Hi. > we’ve been funded for new hardware for our Digital Library (yay!) and > I’m now being asked what Operating system is required. The suggestion > is Redhat EL 4. I’m sure that will be fine, but (being a Solaris > person) I’d like reassurance, so … > > > > Can anyone please confirm that RHEL4 is OK for DSpace?
MIT ran its DSpace instance on RHEL (3 & 4) for many years. I think that you'll do very well on RHEL4. We currently run our DSpace instances on Gentoo. But, I wouldn't recommend Gentoo unless you're... well... a perfectionist who suffers from a compulsive need to highly optimize everything. 8-) One thing I would recommend with RHEL4 is that when you create the file system that will hold your assetstore, make sure you give it enough inodes. DSpace assetstores use a lot of inodes because of how they are structured. I gave our assetstores between one and ten million inodes. If you choose to use ext3 as we did, you can specify the number of inodes for the assetstore file system to the mkfs.ext3 command with the -N flag. You can subsequently check how many inodes you are using and how many you have a available by running `df -h -i`. - VAB - V. Alex Brennen [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX Systems Administrator MIT Libraries ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
