Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Maurer
Has anyone tried running RT in a virtual machine? yes, we also have a ready to run virtual appliance, See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/RT_Request_Tracker But this virtual appliance runs on Proxmox VE (means OpenVZ is used as virtualization technology). I am working also with vmware since

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Peachey
Martin Maurer wrote: Has anyone tried running RT in a virtual machine? yes, we also have a ready to run virtual appliance, See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/RT_Request_Tracker snip I am working also with vmware since years (and also other virtualizations technologies) and the biggest issue

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-02-10 Thread Rainer Duffner
Mike Peachey schrieb: Martin Maurer wrote: Has anyone tried running RT in a virtual machine? yes, we also have a ready to run virtual appliance, See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/RT_Request_Tracker snip I am working also with vmware since years (and also other

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Maurer
I don't know about anyone else, but I am getting a little uncomfortable with your posts (to RT-Users and to the Wiki) being little more than an advert for proxmox rather than a real contribution to the community. Hi Mike, Someone asked about experiences from others, I posted mine - I am

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Maurer
-Original Message- From: Mike Peachey [mailto:mike.peac...@jennic.com] Sent: Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009 12:29 To: Martin Maurer Cc: Tim Cutts; RT Users Subject: Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config Martin Maurer wrote: I don't know about anyone else, but I am getting a little

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-02-09 Thread Tim Cutts
I've been following this discussion (rather belatedly) with some interest. One thing I haven't heard anyone discuss yet: Has anyone tried running RT in a virtual machine? I'm about to move our RT 3.4.2 server onto a virtual machine. I've configured the RT VM to be actually really quite

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-02-09 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 21:55 +, Tim Cutts wrote: I've been following this discussion (rather belatedly) with some interest. One thing I haven't heard anyone discuss yet: Has anyone tried running RT in a virtual machine? Our current production system is a VM. It currently is configured

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-02-09 Thread Cassandra L. Brockett
or the system, 3.8.2 is screaming along for us. -- Cass -Original Message- From: rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Tim Cutts Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 1:56 PM To: RT Users Subject: Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config I've been

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jesse Vincent wrote: I agree completely with the above, but more important to me than just RAM and processing power is the speed of disk access. He mentioned using RAID 5 in a follow-up post. That's fine, but are these IDE or 15k SCSI drives? Faster drives should always speed up database

[rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Mathew
We presently have our RT installation running on the same hardware as the database: an Intel 1550 box with 4 cores of about 2.5GHz each and 8GB RAM. We've been plagued with speed issues even after upgrading to this. We realized initial performance gains when we installed to the new hardware

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread jmoseley
cc al.com Subject [rt-users] Hardware Config 01/16/2009 01:37

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Mathew
[rt-users] Hardware Config 01/16/2009 01:37 PM

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:37:30PM -0500, Mathew wrote: We presently have our RT installation running on the same hardware as the database: an Intel 1550 box with 4 cores of about 2.5GHz each and 8GB RAM. We've been plagued with speed issues even after upgrading to this. We realized

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread jmoseley
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:37:30PM -0500, Mathew wrote: We presently have our RT installation running on the same hardware as the database: an Intel 1550 box with 4 cores of about 2.5GHz each and 8GB RAM. We've been plagued with speed issues even after upgrading to this. We realized initial

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Jesse Vincent
I agree completely with the above, but more important to me than just RAM and processing power is the speed of disk access. He mentioned using RAID 5 in a follow-up post. That's fine, but are these IDE or 15k SCSI drives? Faster drives should always speed up database performance. At 8

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Mathew
I absolutely agree. I've already told him that new hardware isn't going to make a difference even before asking about it here. However, in order to be able to cover my bases in proving him wrong (admittedly a task I chomp at the bit for) I decided to ask about it here. I don't have direct

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Mathew
I don't have the exact specs but I know they are SCSI and likely 10k. I don't know the seek times though. jmose...@corp.xanadoo.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:37:30PM -0500, Mathew wrote: We presently have our RT installation running on the same hardware as the database: an

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Mathew
Can I sob quietly into a hard drink just for the sake of having the drink? Jesse Vincent wrote: I agree completely with the above, but more important to me than just RAM and processing power is the speed of disk access. He mentioned using RAID 5 in a follow-up post. That's fine, but are

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Jesse Vincent
I don't have direct access to the my.cnf file as I'm only a consultant these days but once I'm able to get that I'll give some more info. As also mentioned, I still need to take a look at the tuning scrip Ruslan pointed me to. Start with that script. It just queries the database. It

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Curtis Bruneau
Jesse Vincent wrote: I agree completely with the above, but more important to me than just RAM and processing power is the speed of disk access. He mentioned using RAID 5 in a follow-up post. That's fine, but are these IDE or 15k SCSI drives? Faster drives should always speed up database

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread jmoseley
Jesse Vincent je...@bestpractical.com wrote: At 8 gigs of RAM on a well-tuned system, most of what RT is pulling out of the database should always be cached in memory. If MySQL is going to disk on every query, the game's over and you're better off sobbing quietly into a stiff drink than

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Jesse Vincent
I'm definitely not an expert on how mysql utilizes system memory, but on 32-bit Linux systems, isn't the max amount of memory a single process can use 2 GB? There are (fairly standard) patches to the kernel to remove that limit. And there are known issues with mysql on 32 bit linux and

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Mathew
Curtis Bruneau wrote: Jesse Vincent wrote: I agree completely with the above, but more important to me than just RAM and processing power is the speed of disk access. He mentioned using RAID 5 in a follow-up post. That's fine, but are these IDE or 15k SCSI drives? Faster drives should

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread jmoseley
Fair enough. James Moseley Jesse Vincent je...@bestpracti cal.com

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Mathew
I was finally able to log into the system I'm consulting on. Using all of this discussion as a jumping off point to figure out other steps to take I've found a couple things which are clear problems. There are only 4GB RAM as opposed to the 8GB which I thought it had. This would be moot

Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config

2009-01-16 Thread Curtis Bruneau
je...@bestpractical.com Cc: RT Users rt-us...@bestpractical.com Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config I was finally able to log into the system I'm consulting on. Using all of this discussion as a jumping off point to figure out other steps to take I've