How big is boards?

sutty · 17-01-2003 6:24pm #1

Well I'm bored in work and thought I would ask a sill question.
Just how big is boards.ie?
IE: The Database and all the other little bits and bobs

mike65 · 17-01-2003 7:12pm

C'mon Sutty, everyone knows boards is this big!

Mike.

Dustaz · 17-01-2003 7:17pm

THIS BIG!!!!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 17-01-2003 7:20pm

are you sure it's not a little bit bigger?

leeroybrown · 17-01-2003 7:41pm

"Boards.ie ... bigger than Lola Ferarri's Breasts"

Bard · 17-01-2003 7:56pm

I seem to recall Regi mentioning that the database on it's own is over 1Gb in size.

DeVore · 18-01-2003 12:24pm

the DB is over a gig in size, the whole lot is a little over 2gigs
(people have been using the free space a fair bit!).

DeV.

po0k · 19-01-2003 1:16am

just on a matter of interest, how arethe hard drives setup?
IDE RAID? SCSI? SCSI RAID?

Ye've a gig of ram in her atm don't ye?

and dual P3 733.

Don't suppose ye know what controller card is in it?

STaN · 20-01-2003 4:01am

wouldnt a MP 2200 own 2 * 733's ?

what kind of load are the processors under?

is there anything else running off the server?

amp · 20-01-2003 10:11am

Probably Stan, and very kind of you to offer to donate said processor. Plus I think there's some kind of multi-threading shennigans that works better with dual cpu's.

So, can we get a full spec on the new server so that all us nerds can self-gratify ourselves into a frenzy?

leeroybrown · 20-01-2003 11:20am

Given the loads boards.ie experiences beteween Apache and MySQL dual processors (SMP) probably allow for better performance.

And any way, it's not a *real* server unless it's got 2 processors

DeVore · 20-01-2003 1:01pm

We've two scsi drives, 1.7Gb of ram, 2x733 processors (using SMP as people pointed out here).

We're not processor bound, there isnt that much processing to do to be honest. We keep the (unix) load below 2 as much as possible (which is pretty much all the time).

We're bound by the diskspeed...the machine simply cant get the info off those drives as fast as it needs to... so the server is pretty much serving flat out (you cant get much better then being Hard-disk-bound...)

Any other tech questions and I'll try to get answers for them...

DeV.

STaN · 20-01-2003 1:23pm

what kind of disks? how many? interface? speed?

regi · 20-01-2003 1:41pm

There's 4 Ultra 3 SCSI drives, the mysql installation has one to itself, to try to speed up access to it. The mysql database for boards is currently weighing in at 741 Mb.

There's almost exactly 210 Mb of stuff in the /members area, and about 250 Mb of other misc boards stuff floating around in there. That's mostly movies/images/old boards stuff.

leeroybrown · 20-01-2003 1:52pm

Mmmm, SCSI

10krpm or 15krpm?

regi · 20-01-2003 2:15pm

10kprm

How big is boards?

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