Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation

[Tom Chance]

> > As for processing power, unless we use a single
> PII
> > 450 to do the serving, I'm not sure processing
> power
> > is going to be much of a problem. Especially if we
> use
> > Perl, because then we can use a small bank of
> > interpreters to do the number crunching, and a
> main
> > computer to act as the "gateway", to hold the info
> > etc. We shouldn't offload our problems onto the
> users,
> > we should solve them all ourselves.
> 
> With database servers the main issue is memory
> rather than raw CPU power.
> MySQL responds well to proper tuning, most of which
> relates to telling it
> how to use the memory it has available.

Which, IMO, still points to us doing most of the work.
In terms of the database server, it could well be a
seperate box to the HTML server if we wanted it to be.
And lets think how many simultaneous accesses we're
likely to get. Submissions, certainly for at least a
year, probably won't outstrip 3 a day. I doubt we'd be
likely to have more than 20 simultaneous etrievals for
viewing articles from the database, and if we get a
machine with a decent CPU and 512mb of RAM, I doubt
we'll ever hit any problems. And as the resource
grows, the increase in demand will spread across more
mirrors, and we can upgrade our main mirrors
ourselves.

Tom Chance

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