So that we may never have to buy another server for decades... or until we need more processing power.
On 7/26/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/26/06, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
"Single or Dual Xeon or AMD64 based system with up to 6.0 Terabytes of storage and 12 GB of DDR memory. Comes fully installed with the
Wikipedia
Encyclopedia and a full suite of automated site mirroring and update
tools
and 1 year of service and support."
Why so much storage?
Uncompressed enwiki text is 680GB. All images in total are about 300GB. Loaded into postgresql with a normal set of indexes enwiki takes about 400GB, I can imagine that a mysql load would be any larger (in mysql mediawiki uses zlib batch compression).
I guess the 3TB makes sense to have some growth room.. but 18TB?
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