Hello,
I've been testing OpenAFS for a while now, and I think we are soon ready to
start moving user accounts, home directories and other shared folders to a
production AFS environment. I would like to know what hardware folks are
using for the OpenAFS components at a site comparable to our size:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:54:15 -0700
Jonathan Nilsson wrote:
> Mainly, I am interested in finding out how much CPU and RAM the
> database server components of OpenAFS will take. We have donated old
> hardware with Dual Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors and 4GB DDR2 RAM.
> And we can also allocate a fe
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:54:15PM -0700, Jonathan Nilsson wrote:
>
>Mainly, I am interested in finding out how much CPU and RAM the
>database server components of OpenAFS will take.? We have donated old
>hardware with Dual Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors and 4GB DDR2 RAM.?
>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:54:15PM -0700, Jonathan Nilsson wrote:
>Mainly, I am interested in finding out how much CPU and RAM the
>database server components of OpenAFS will take.? We have donated old
>hardware with Dual Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors and 4GB DDR2 RAM.?
>
> Do you have an estimate on the number of client machines? How many
> database servers?
>
We will probably have about 500 client machines as well.
>
> Though even without that, I'm inclined to say that that is really really
> overly sufficient (overkill) for database servers for a cell of that
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, emat...@yahoo.com wrote:
Also, when the su command finally completes, I noticed this:
[emat...@aerogold ~]$ su
Password:
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
xhost: unable to open display "localhost:10.0"
The xhost thing is happening because I am aut
> >Thoughts and other feedback is much appreciated. Thanks!
>
> In fact, probably the greatest concern is if you use any number of
> virtual machines make sure the virtual hosts with the db processes
> are on distinct physical machines.
>
That makes sense, and is definitely something I can en
> Date:Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:54:15 PDT
> To: openafs-info
> From:Jonathan Nilsson
> Subject: [OpenAFS] recommended hardware for new production environment
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been testing OpenAFS for a while now, and I think we are soon ready to
> start moving user accounts, home dir
