On March 4 2011, Seb35 wrote: > Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:45:53 +0100, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: >> Seb35 wrote: >>> I'm from the French chapter and we need sometimes a lot of CPU power >>> and/or a lot of memory for some projects. For now it happened two >>> times: >> >> It's difficult to know what "a lot" of CPU power or memory is from >> your >> post. Toolserver accounts have account limits >> (<https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Account_limits>), so if you're >> staying >> within those limits, there's generally no problem. If you want to >> exceed >> those limits, you should talk to the Toolserver roots first >> (<https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/System_administrators>). There are >> places >> like /mnt/user-store that can be used for large media storage as >> well. >> >> As always, the Toolserver resources that you use need to relate to >> Wikimedia >> in some way, but it sounds like both of your projects do. :-) >> >> MZMcBride > Ok, thank you, I didn't find this page. > > For the BnF project we needed in fact about one day of computation > (most > of the time was used by the disk accesses), but we thought it would be > more (we optimized too by using SAX instead of DOM to read big XML > files, > it used too much memory with DOM too). > For the video encoding to OGV (it's not me who done that), it was 4-5 > hours for a single video but some time was used to swap (and there > are 100 > videos corresponding to the conferences). > > Thank you for the response. > Seb35
Hi Seb35, "One day" or "4-5 hours" still don't mean a lot in terms of technical requirements. One day of computing with what equipment ? With 24 hours of runtime a small difference can make a big difference. What kind of server server/setup did this run on ? How much is "too much memory" ? -- Krinkle _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
