[Foss4g2009] Integration Showcase Machine 1

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks for the feedback; I will indeed take this "proposed" machine to 
the geoserver-devel list next and ask if meets their needs. Perhaps you 
feel comfortable pestering the mapserver list for me?

Jody

Doug White wrote:
> Jody,
>
> Good to catch up this afternoon.  I would say that machine spec is a 
> good start point, although the stripe disk may have to be larger 
> depending on data of course.
> Since disk is relatively cheap, I personally would normally opt for 
> 2x512GB disks in a raid0 stripe for data and 2x smaller disks (120GB?) 
> for the OS and application software in a raid1 mirror.  Although this 
> is a question of redundancy requirements?
>
> If the machine is to use a Linux OS, then it could utilise software 
> raid and LVM for this type of thing using standard SATA disks. Again, 
> personal preference.
>
> The CPU and memory seem fine... but maybe mapserver, geoserver, 
> postgis developer lists would provide feedback on requirements in 
> relation to processing vector and raster data.
>
> Doug. White
>
>
> Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Good Afternoon,
>>
>> Mark and myself are going to try and set up the first integration 
>> showcase machine; as I would like to have a sample server to point 
>> people to when the call for workshops goes out early next month. 
>> Sticking with what we are comfortable with this machine will be set 
>> up with MapServer/GeoServer/PostGIS and such sample data as people 
>> actually donate in time (I am hoping for a range of raster and vector 
>> data).
>>
>> So the question is ....
>>
>> How is this for machine specifications (based on this I am going to 
>> go and try and round up the hardware).
>> - 512 G Disk RAID 0
>> - 4 gigs ram
>> - 2 cpu (2 core each)
>>
>> We can go bounce this off the mapserver, geoserver, postgis developer 
>> lists but I though I would start here.
>> Jody
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