Hi Simon, what are your requirements performance-wise? How many requests do you get at the moment?
Sarah On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 03:41:16PM +0000, Simon Nuttall wrote: > We're trying to spec up a new machine to run CycleStreets and we would > like to instantiate a worldwide Nominatim service too. > > Our current Nominatim service (which runs in a VM) is now getting > quite out of date as I stopped updating it when it couldn't keep up > with the updates and was hogging the disk. > > Our new machine will not be a VM, and I think it will be able to run > alongside CycleStreets in the same bare metal Ubuntu installation, > their main common element will be apache2. > > My question relates to how much RAM is used by a world-wide Nominatim > when it has finished it's initial set up. Does it need to have a big > permanently allocated RAM image to operate efficiently? If so how big > is that RAM image? > > Will the updating be a significant drain on the performance of the > machine overall? > > Is there a big RAM requirement during the initialization phase? > > Although we're considering getting a machine with 128GB RAM for > CycleStreets an alternative option is to get a separate dedicated > smaller machine that only has 16GB. Could that do the whole world > (presumably taking much longer for the initialization phase), but fine > once it has got through that? > > Simon > > -- > Simon Nuttall > > Route Master, CycleStreets.net > > _______________________________________________ > Geocoding mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding _______________________________________________ Geocoding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding
