On Jan 5, 2005, at 5:44 AM, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I strongly support the idea of a machine for handling logs, statistics, and research into those things. I think we could learn a lot about how the community really functions by studying logs, and the traffic stats are important for us to understand and project our growth patterns.
My question to wikitech-l: what sort of machine should we use for this? I am thinking that a fully loaded dual Opteron is overkill, but a typical apache is too small?
It doesn't have to run super fast, it just has to run independently and therefore not kill our other, vital machines.
The problem we had before was that these things were run on Zwinger, and it ate up all the memory, scarfed up all the disk bandwidth, and went into swap for hours on end, sending everything into a downward spiral of doom.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)