[RFC] Use donations for more memory for svn/cvs/mail server

[Andrew Sackville-West]

well I'm not a dev, but am a donator, and I say do it and go ahead and 
max it out and be done with the problem. I suspect that the G2 release 
will generate a lot more activity for gnucash and your "alarm" will bear 
out at that time. I'd hate to see a g2 release generate enough activity 
to bring something down. but I know not of these things.

A

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