Hi, My library is currently using a proprietary ILS which meets all our needs and a good share of our wants. However, I've been watching Koha for a couple of years and have been impressed with its advances over time. I doubt that it would feasible for us to migrate to Koha (we have lots of bells and whistles with our current system). However, I'm interested in loading Koha on a development server just to try it out and see how it works with our data. We currently have around 500,000 items (250,000 bibs), 110,000 borrowers, and 10 locations. Does anyone have suggestions on what type of server specs would be good for a development server? I'm interested in "recommended" specs (not just minimum requirements). Most of the Koha libraries I've looked at seem to be using Debian. Would there likely be problems using another distro such as Red Hat? I think my manager might be more comfortable with a distro that has mainstream support available (we have no Linux administration experience). Are there any MySQL size limits that I would need to worry about? Is there anything else obvious that I need to consider? Thanks for your help/suggestions. Sincerely, Gem Stone-Logan gemstonelogan@gmail.com Weld Library District http://www.mylibrary.us/
Hello Gem, Thursday, February 22, 2007, 6:39:23 PM, you wrote: GSL> Hi, GSL> Does anyone have suggestions on what type of server specs would be GSL> good for a development server? I'm interested in "recommended" specs GSL> (not just minimum requirements). hm. our koha works on 2 servers (soon on 3) BG - Pentium 4 3 Ghz 1MB/800 Mhz, 1.5GB mem - KOHA cgi, mails, www pages, samba and others services KOHA - Pentium 4 2,6 Ghz, 1.5 GB mem, SCSI 4x36GB - mysql databases soon : TerminalServer - Dual-Core Xeon 5110 1.60GHz 4MB 1066MHz x2, 2GB mem, SAS 73GBx2 - database replication, low balancing KOHA<->MySQL, and workers terminals (about 15) Connection: BG<->KOHA<->TerminalServer (100Mbits) soon exclusive direct: BG<->KOHA<->TerminalServer (1Gbits) Borrowers: 20,000 Records: 9000main catalogue (soon after conversion 200,000), other databases (Teology, CIDE, etc.): 7000+32000+13212+500+5000+300 :) GSL> Most of the Koha libraries I've looked at seem to be using Debian. GSL> Would there likely be problems using another distro such as Red Hat? I GSL> think my manager might be more comfortable with a distro that has GSL> mainstream support available (we have no Linux administration GSL> experience). no problemos:) We using PLD, OpenSUSE, Debian, Gentoo:) GSL> Are there any MySQL size limits that I would need to worry about? hm. we using Koha 2.2.4 with strong modification. You can have problems with original Koha (experience with 2.2.4!) sooner or later with this size of yours database in usage (not mysql problem!). bye -- The Main Library of Szczecin University. Computerization Department.
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