2008/6/25 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to assist packaging PostgreSQL for OLPC. > I'm the upstream packager for PostgreSQL, and I also maintain 30+ > packages for Fedora+EPEL. > What should I do next?
Hi Devrim! Thanks for getting in touch - I am the guy looking after the School Server, and that's where we need Pg. Right now, we are based on F7 and though we plan to move to F9, that will take a little bit of time. I am hoping to have Pg 8.2 or 8.3, and I think F9 already has it. How hard is it to get a backport of Pg8.2/8.3, plus some key dependencies (php-pgsql, python-pgsql, pam-pgsql) recompiled to use the new libpq, all on F7? Also - I see you work at CommandPrompt -- so I'll throw a wishlist item I have on my list in your direction. Perhaps you, or someone at CommandPrompt has something similar. With Pg packaged, what we will need to come up with is ~3 sets of config files tuned for different memory footprints. The same XS image will be used in hosts with various memory configurations - 256MB RAM on XO hardware, 1GB on the recommended config, and high-end hosts may have more RAM. Pg cannot take all of that memory, but perhaps 15%-20% is a reasonable footprint. The workload for Pg is mainly Moodle and MediaWiki. One of the key things for the XS is that we should not OOM, and our working set _must not_ end up in swap. And we have several services we have to run, so it's a bit of a tough diet on RAM usage. We gotta sweat every MB :-) cheers, and thanks, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
