[Server-devel] updated project plan

[Tony Pearson]

Wad,
On memory I agree.  I am using 640MB on my XS system, and 512MB on my 
Squid system.  As for disk capacity, you can combine multiple 120GB drives 
to get the capacity you are looking for, espcially since /library is 
already LVM.

As for "backing up the cache", what I think we really want is a "mirror 
site" as many download sites call them.  This would mean that the Squid 
box hosts specific content under Apache, and this content could be pulled 
in from the internet daily or weekly via CRON schedule.  A PHP page could 
easily point to what is available, and we can make the main page or Moodle 
point to it for specific content.  This "mirror" could easily be backed up 
to the XS or Backup server as needed.

In effect this makes the Squid box double as a pseudo-"Library Server" 
that we were considering earlier.

Thanks





Tony Pearson
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John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> 
02/18/2008 02:18 PM

To
Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>
cc
John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>, "Greg Smith (gregmsmi)" 
<gregmsmi at cisco.com>, server-devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>, Tony 
Pearson/Tucson/IBM at IBMUS, sulochan acharya <sulochan at olenepal.org>
Subject
Re: [Server-devel] updated project plan







On Feb 17, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:

> When the power comes back on in my house (and Internet connection) I
> will take a look at your updated version of the project plan.
>
> 1. Google vs. Mediawiki
> I would like to keep everything in the wiki but I find formatting 
> tables
> in Mediawiki to be a real pain. If you could try to put the stuff 
> on the
> google spreadsheet into Mediawiki tables that would be great.
>
> 2. School Server Hardware
> We do need to nail this down this week.
>
> XS
> Most likely will be the following:
> Pentium D processor (cheap and readily available in Nepal)
> 120 GB hard drive
> 256 RAM

This has to be higher.   I would recommend 512 MB as a minimum, and 
1GB as
recommended.   Squid eats memory.   If you are doing backup, you will 
need
more hard drive --- 250 GB are currently the "most for the least", 
and that is
quickly moving to 320 GB.

> Hardware availability is pretty limited in Nepal so we will use that
> which is most available.
>


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