> > Thoughts and other feedback is much appreciated. Thanks! > > In fact, probably the greatest concern is if you use any number of > virtual machines make sure the virtual hosts with the db processes > are on distinct physical machines. >
That makes sense, and is definitely something I can enforce. With even a large cell I can't remember the last time I thought > "my db servers need more memory or cpu oomph". > Good to know... I guess, I just really didn't know what to expect as the dbserver entries grew, or what sort of limits defined a "large" cell. > I think it's more > important to find the most rock-stable machines you can, really. > Perhaps our donated systems will not make great dbservers since their stability is unknown, or at least questionable. > The cell at work (umich.edu) has a giant number of entries in the > vldb and pt databases, and probably the most load the db processes > get is the nightly "dump the vldb so we can stash it away and > do interesting things with it" job. > Thanks for your input everyone! -- Jonathan Nilsson, [email protected] Social Sciences Computing Services 949.824.1536, SSPA 4110, UC Irvine
