On Jan 12, 2004, at 16:23, Brion Vibber wrote:
Our present alternatives for database duty are:
As a reminder, we're not talking here about future machines to get, but about what's in the racks and online *right now*.
- Carol (currently idle) with a SCSI drive that's too small for the
whole database.
Ran memtester and managed to kill the poor dear. Carol initially had an overheating problem and crashed soon after installation. Jason fiddled with the case and placement to improve airflow, but unfortunately this may not be enough. :(
Scratch Carol off the list for now. Carol's also got 4GB of RAM which would be _very_ nice to have up and running, assuming it all works!
- Susan (currently idle) with another IDE drive that's likely not the
fastest.
Susan hasn't died during memory testing yet (yay). However it's a smaller machine with only 512MB of memory as well as the ide disk. Not ideal for database, though this might be sufficient to offload some work.
I won't touch the databases just yet...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)