[Benchmarking] Test System Specs

[Andrea Aime]

Daniel Morissette ha scritto:
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> Feedback on Mike's offer? It looks pretty good to me... 
> 
> I say +1 and big thanks to Mike!
> 
> This will give us benchmarks for a high end server which is good (with 
> 32GB RAM everything will end up being cached in memory). Do we want to 
> also run the benchmarks on our lower end box? I think that could make an 
> interesting comparison.

I agree, running at least a few of them on a lower end box could prove
interesting.

> 
>> are we concern
>> about Xen and such?
>>
> 
> After Andrea's comments I'm tempted to say we don't do any 
> virtualization and we install/run everything in the same host, making 
> sure nobody does something that will break someone else's setup. Xen may 
> be fine for CPU bound processes but the report he pointed to mentioned 
> poor performance for Xen on the file system benchmarks which is also a 
> big factor, at least for MapServer.

Indeed. We just need to pay attention and keep everything in our
respective home directories I guess.

Cheers
Andrea

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