[mapserver-users] Hardware advice?

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Tue Nov 6 11:44:15 EST 2001



"Markus.Spring" wrote:

> You shouldn't have a too small amount of memory, 256 MB is ok, 512 MB is
> better - especially if you run x-windows for development - linux uses
> 'excess' memory for caching purposes and thus can compensate for a
> slower disk.

I concur w/ Markus on the memory, it is the best performance bang for
your buck. Performance tuning postgresql generally means allocating more
memory for shared segments, so having the physical RAM available will
help. 

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