Re: [Sks-devel] new keyserver

[Chris Kuethe]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Botka Istvan wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm planning to set up a new public keyserver. I have some questions before 
> starting.
>
> I downloaded/compiled/installed sks from Savannah. The dump download, and db 
> build is done.
>
> What is the resource requirements a keyserver. As I see the db is now ~5.5G. 
> It is not problem up to ~10G permament and ~20G temporary.
>
> But I don't know anything about the CPU and bandwith requirements. I have to 
> know some data about before I start the server.

over the last 3 weeks, pgp.srv.ualberta.ca has done about 20MB/day

===========================================================================
load averages:  0.74,  0.50,  0.26                                     02:41:12
29 processes:  28 idle, 1 on processor
CPU states:  0.2% user,  0.0% nice,  0.9% system,  0.3% interrupt, 98.6% idle
Memory: Real: 42M/131M act/tot  Free: 873M  Swap: 0K/1025M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND
23230 sks        2    0 5836K   31M sleep    netio    0:03  0.10% sks
30989 sks        2    0 2048K 2896K sleep    netio    0:00  0.00% sks
===========================================================================

i'm running on a dell PE1750, i think. 2.6GHz P4, 1GB mem.


> The server is located at Hungary, connected to the HBONE (National Academic 
> Backbone Network). The site connection will be upgraded to 1 Gbit/s in this 
> year. (But the server only have a FastEthernet interface).
>
> What is the administration way the set up the synchron peers?

Ask people on the list to add your server to their membership files
and when they do, add them to your membership file.

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