On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:34:10 -0800 Mark Donohoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jason Self wrote: > > Since it'll be a multi-user installation with different people > > working on simultaneously working on different aspects, will > > FOSSology try to hold the entire database in memory? If so I need > > to get a different machine as the one I was planning to use maxes > > out at 8GB of RAM and I'd like something that can be used without > > swapping. > Jason, > > I'm not sure where you are getting this information. We have set up > a working system on a laptop with 2gig of memory. We don't hold the > db in memory... plus our db only contains the meta-data about the > files uploaded. The unpacked files are kept on the file system and > are referenced from there. I tried to find a reference for my assertion to Jason about the memory usage. Its not obviously in my email, so I might have to go digging into my irc logs for #fossology. Incase its relevant, this is probably back before 1.0 (perhaps ~ 0.8), so the chance of things being different now is high ;) kk > I think 8 gig should be fine. I run a system with 12 gig and have no > issues and I beat the hell out of it testing it and uploading lots of > things. We have other systems with 8 gig and they work fine as > well. It really depends on what the total load of all the activities > will be. In general, if you plan to upload and analyze a lot of large > files, the bigger the system the better. It's that good old space vs > time.... more memory, less time.... > -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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