[Foundation-l] Wolf Mountain MediaWiki Appliances Released

[James Hare]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/26/06, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at 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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