On Wed, December 20, 2006 9:53 am, Neil Schneider wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is the current one prone to failure? Hardware or software? Or not up >> to tasks it handles? If it's just a space issue, perhaps just >> replacing >> or adding disk space would be better for now? > > It's getting long in the tooth. I don't remember exactly when we > bought it, but I believe it's 5+ years old. It's only a 800Mhz PIII. > Plone is putting excesive load on it and it seems to be slow to > respond. I think, given what we have running on it, we should > probably have 2Gb RAM and whatever CPU people believe is appropriate. > We're not only running plone, but Amavisd for spam and virus > detection. We have collected so much spam in the quaranteen that it's > taking some time to clean out right now. > > We might want to increase disk space a little, but I don't think it's > a necessity. Faster disks would be an advantage. I don't think we can > do anything in that area without a newer motherboard. > > My preferences lean towards a SuperMicro or Intel quality machine, not > a cheap clone with no name motherboard. >
As a CB I can tell you that there is a time to spend for quality. This would be one of those IMO. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
