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.
New is definitely nice, but I agree with RE that we should consider simpler upgrade possibilities, and do some cost comparisons. ..And _then_ decide we like new better <heh>. It was previously stated (references furnished upon request), that adding memory and implementing cache-fu (or something like that) would likely alleviate perceived speed problems. Memory and disk upgrade costs are not too hard to estimate. Is the power supply and mobo likely to survive another 5 years? Build and rebuild costs can't be too different, I suppose. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
