[Benchmarking] Test System Specs

[Daniel Morissette]

Andrea Aime wrote:
> Jeff McKenna ha scritto:
>> And the other option (instead of an EC2 cloud or maintaining the 
>> server ourselves) is to split the cost of a single hosted dedicated 
>> server for a few months.  (such as something like 
>> www.serverpronto.com)  I prefer this option because we'll be 
>> guaranteed the specs and don't have to 'get the machine' or maintain 
>> the hardware in any way.
> 
> Seems quite reasonable. A machine with 1.5GB memory should do. We
> are considering a Linux machine, right?
> 

+1 for Linux.

Do we not want two boxes on the same high-speed local network? One with 
a decent spec to run MapServer/GeoServer, and one from which we launch 
the tests (a lower end box would do for that).

Daniel
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