[mapserver-users] Hardware advice?

[Flavio Hendry]

Hi Twan

>I'm planning to use MapServer and PostGIS for a demonstration project. At 
>the current time i'm planning the hardware requirements of this project. 
>Can anybody tell me if there are any minimum hardware requirements? The
>map 

We use a 1GHz, 256 RAM IBM Netfinity with RAID controller (RAID 5 configuration).
If you have large datasets I'd definitely suggets a RAID and fast Harddisks, it's worth it (our experiance is that processor and RAM do not bring that much of a difference, RAID however a lot).

>I'm planning to purchase the linux distribution Suse, will MapServer 
>compile and run on this distribution?

We have SUSE 7.2 - no problem. With the above hardware it's as fast as a Ferrari ...

ciao
flavio


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