[mapserver-users] Hardware advice?

[Markus.Spring]

Hi Twan,

here in Munich
(http://dream.lrrl.arch.tu-muenchen.de/maplist.xml?portal=arbeit) we are
running mapservers on several SuSE distributions, on 7.3 we are starting
now; everything works fine.

Hardware: for a small demonstration site every cheap new pc should be
sufficient. Our public mapserver is a duron 600 which is fast enough.
For large datasets I would prefere a SCSI Raid set, but for the
beginning an ide-disk (preferably ultra-dma 66, and don't forget to
activate DMA transfer in linux - with SuSE it's in /etc/rc.config) will
be enough.

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.

Have fun -- Markus