On 11/13/2017 07:44 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Any comments on the specs we want for a newer trap and possibly
masscheck client from Sonic?
See below.
Regards,
KAM
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Subject: Re: apachesf account at Sonic
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:42:37 -0800
From: Joe Muller <joe.mul...@sonic.com>
To: Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org>
Kevin,
A follow-up on my earlier email - we want to make sure we're giving
you guys a server that meets your needs. Can you address the following?
- Roughly how much bandwidth is needed? In the last year, I show a peak
inbound traffic at 10mbps and peak outbound at 280kbps. Is a 100mbps
port sufficient?
- On the CPU end, is a dual-core machine good? Would a server-grade Atom
CPU work well?
- How much memory is needed? 2GB? 4GB? 8GB?
- Is a 500GB RAID mirror sufficient?
- Is CentOS (Linux) sufficent, or is a Debian/Ubuntu install better?
- Do you need remote management (aka IPMI)?
-- Joe Muller
System Administrator
Sonic System Operations
What do we think they will be hosting? My masscheck server at ENA is
providing about 77% of the current masscheck corpus (we really need
other contributors) and it is an 8 core a 8 GB RAM VM. It really only
needs that much RAM and cores for the masscheck processing.
If they setup a masscheck'er, do we have any idea of their corpus size?
This will greatly determine the specs it needs. A dual-core, 4 GB might
be OK if their corpus is small.
I am not familiar with what it takes to run the "trap." What is that
doing exactly? Are you hosting that on PCCC servers today?
Are they going to host an SA mirror too? I can give them bandwidth
estimates once we get the sa-updates rolling again.
I personally would prefer CentOS if we are going to be running it but I
would be OK with Ubuntu if we need to consider consistency with the
sa-vm1.apache.org box.
IPMI would be great so we wouldn't have to bother them if something is
hung and we need to power cycle it.
Dave
