Alfred Nutile wrote:
Sorry if this is somewhere on the site. Maybe someone could just send me a link. Is there are way to spec out a server for an "average" size library. Maybe there is a book volume measuring system to say if you have this many books then you need these specs for a server? Thanks Al
The size of a library is not a primary factor, but rather the number of simultaneous connections and transactions frequency. I had Koha 2.2.4 installed on Athlon 900, 512 Ram, 9.1 gb SCSI drive and it worked fine, but I was the only user. Bulkmarcimport of 120000 records took about 20 hours. Now I`ve moved Koha to Core2Duo E4500, 4 gb RAM, 4x160 gb SATA2 and I think it`ll be an overkill. 4 catalogers, up to 10 desk attendants, up to 3000 borrow / return / reserve operations a day. However, you should pay attention to client machines - they should have reasonably fast CPUs and decent graphic cards (preferably NOT onboard, especially Intels, SIS and VIAs). I encountered annoying slow-downs on machines with onboard graphics when cataloging and setting system parameters. Regards, Tomasz.