Obnoxio The Clown schrieb:
> DL Redden said:
>> Wouldn't it be nice if the installer was smart enough to sniff out the
>> machine info and suggest a reasonable list of configurations to choose
>> from based on the machine size. That would be most useful for getting
>> started right out of the box.
>
> Although it's possible to write something that probed a box's config, it
> would be a lot of very platform-specific maintenance. Maybe we could write
> something on a GPL basis as a community with designated maintenance teams
> for each supported platform ... ?
>

First - I am not an expert is this things! Just a user.
Maybe the solution is, to offer a solution ready
to run with Knoppix or some such bootable Linux
or even packaged for vmware player.

At least the virtalizers expect that a user is able
to tell the player, how much memory and free disk
is available.

Both 'd be interesing for
tiny & old, laptop style, small server, medium server.
Tiny & old or laptop means that you have like 30-40 GB
free disk.
Server style today means: the cheaper the things the
bigger the disks, so one can expect upto 500GB of free disk space

I run a laptop with linux and the luxury of a 160 GB disk.
This thing also has a core 2 duo CPU and 2GB of RAM and
Gigabit Ethernet
-> successfully testing
with CPUVPS set to 8, and NETVPS also set to 8.
Load avg is approx at 85%, if stress testing with 500 users
on apache/tomcat/perl on a second machine using the laptop
as DB server and IDS V10UC3 as database SW
A comparably huge dual quadcore XEON blade is only 30% faster

dic_k
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