Hardware requirements for a machine running server and client together - Elive?
Hi to all. A perhaps stupid question but very important for me. How much powerful should be a computer for running Koha as server and a client together working with about 70.000 records? Thanks in advance And... can I install Elive Linux instead of pure Debian? Thanks Andrea Furin --
Hi I think you need server with high performance.. I advice to has these features: Processor core i5 or above for a better performance.. RAM 8 GB will be v. good.. You'll need a 64 bit OS to support that much RAM. Also you need large volume of HDD.. 320 GB will be enough as locally.. Best regards.. Sent from my iPad On Jan 12, 2014, at 15:47, Andrea Furin <andrea.furin@slacky.it> wrote:
Hi to all. A perhaps stupid question but very important for me. How much powerful should be a computer for running Koha as server and a client together working with about 70.000 records? Thanks in advance
And... can I install Elive Linux instead of pure Debian?
Thanks
Andrea Furin
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I have about 350,000 records running just fine in a virtual environment, only a single core, 1GB RAM. Sent from my iPad
On Jan 12, 2014, at 15:47, Andrea Furin <andrea.furin@slacky.it> wrote:
Hi to all. A perhaps stupid question but very important for me. How much powerful should be a computer for running Koha as server and a client together working with about 70.000 records? Thanks in advance
And... can I install Elive Linux instead of pure Debian?
Thanks
Andrea Furin
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Andrea Furin schreef op zo 12-01-2014 om 14:47 [+0100]:
Hi to all. A perhaps stupid question but very important for me. How much powerful should be a computer for running Koha as server and a client together working with about 70.000 records? Thanks in advance
A good desktop should handle that OK if you're having to be very budget conscious, though this isn't a recommended configuration. Servers tend to be faster, easier to keep backed up, secured, and maintained. To specify a server, you really need to know how busy it'll be. More records really just means more disk space, but that's cheap. More usage means more/better CPUs and more RAM. As a rule of thumb, the minimums I'd recommend for a server are 2GB RAM, 20GB of disk, and dual core reasonable processors. However if you are also running a desktop on it, then you'll have to increase the specs to account for this.
And... can I install Elive Linux instead of pure Debian?
Maybe. If it's close enough to Debian, you can do it with the packages. If it's not close enough, you'll have to do it the old-fashioned tar file way. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
Greetings,
How much powerful should be a computer for running Koha as server and a client together working with about 70.000 records?
Technically: THERE ARE NO HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR A BASE KOHA INSTALLATION. In reality, more than 512MB of RAM. 1GB minimum is my suggestion. 512MB was painfully inadequate for us and we have less than 70K records currently. I like the 2GB ram suggestion, which is what we are using for our live system. 20 minute full reindex vs. 3+ hours trying to reindex on 512MB. And depending on the size of your records, Operating System, etc. You could probably get away with a 15GB drive space. But again, libraries grow, so why not larger? And you are doing a desktop, so probably 320GB should suffice initially. :) "However, it is a good idea to have a hard drive on the larger size for a production system because the database of MARC records will be contained on that one hard drive. We are not only concerned about MARC records but also patron data, checkout history, use statistics and most importantly database indexes." (http://www.codeykolasinski.com/koha.pdf) -- Good point! :)
And... can I install Elive Linux instead of pure Debian?
You can try Elive Linux, but pure Debian (or Ubuntu) has more people who have done it, are doing it, and can help you do it. It should be possible, considering it claims to be where Debian mets enlightenment, which would suggest the packages from the Koha Debian repository should be usable. GPML, Mark Tompsett
Greetings, In the off chance someone thinks the PDF I linked to are the instructions you should follow. Don't. The current installation instructions should be followed, not archaic ones. :) http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages GPML, Mark Tompsett
Hie, I highly advice you to separate server and client. Indeed, a wrong manipulation on client, such as setting network off, and your server is down. You could use a simple desktop PC has server and a small nettop has client. So you can use pure Debian with stable version for server and what you want for client. Regards, Le 12/01/2014 14:47, Andrea Furin a écrit :
Hi to all. A perhaps stupid question but very important for me. How much powerful should be a computer for running Koha as server and a client together working with about 70.000 records? Thanks in advance
And... can I install Elive Linux instead of pure Debian?
Thanks
Andrea Furin
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Greetings, You could always host your server on a remote server. We hosted elsewhere previously, but I'm not going to say who, because I wouldn't recommend them to my worst enemy. We currently use DigitalOcean. https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing $20/month is cheaper than buying a new server every 4 years. :) Just a side thought. Then you can get an off the shelf machine to be a client at cheaper prices. The only major reason to not host is because of data privacy issues, as far as I can tell. GPML, Mark Tompsett
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