[RFC] Use donations for more memory for svn/cvs/mail server
Chris Lyttle
chris at wilddev.net
Fri Dec 2 20:41:13 EST 2005
My vote is option 2 as well.
Chris
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:02 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Even though I "control" the donation account, I felt it only
> appropriate to obtain approval from the developer community
> before using it for anything. My "request" is to purchase
> more memory for the server.
>
> Currently the server has 512MB of DDR333 SDRAM. Right now it's using
> all that RAM and sitting in swap:
>
> [root at cvs httpd]# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 513096 505968 7128 0 72704 204336
> -/+ buffers/cache: 228928 284168
> Swap: 1046192 270748 775444
>
> I think this is mostly due to the change to svn. The apache
> servers are sitting with 20-40M virtual size each (10-20MB
> resident), and the mailman runner is sitting at 100MB VSS.
> I honestly don't think we're running anything extraordinary,
> and the server load is pretty low, so perhaps I'm just being
> alarmist about using up 25% of our swap space. But that's
> why I'm sending out this RFC -- to get your opinions.
>
> The server has an open memory slot. According to crucial.com,
> our system can hold up to 2GB of RAM and has two banks
> of one slot:
>
> http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=Dell%2BDimension+%2F+Dimension+XPS&mfr=Dell&tabid=AM&model=Dimension+2400+Series&submit=Go
>
> I see two choices (well, three):
>
> 0: Do nothing. (this was my "well, third" choice)
> 1: Pay $64 for 512MB to bring total memory to 1GB
> 2: Pay $151 for 1GB to bring total memory to 1.5GB
> (note that prices above do not include taxes and shipping)
>
> I'd like to hear from you developers about what you think.
> I'll note that we have plenty of cash in the donation jar
> to pay for either option.
>
> I'm not in any hurry to make this purchase.. Indeed I don't plan
> to do anything about this until January (I was going to order
> the RAM at the end of this month).
>
> Please let me know what you think. (Feel free to respond personally
> and I can summerize if you don't want to respond to the list).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -derek
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