RE: {bb} BB hardware

["Jim Fitzmaurice" <jpfitz@fnal.gov>]

I recently moved from a 400MHz PII to a 133MHz DEC Alpha Work Station, both
run Apache and Netscape. I haven't noticed any significant speed problems,
it seems to run just fine. More than enough power here. Occasionally the
free memory drops into the yellow, but it rarely last for more than 1 cycle
and almost never dips into the red.

Note: This same machine is also running an instance of SETI@Home as well,
and most of the yellow/red memory incidents coincide with the download of a
new work file from SETI. Nothing to do with BB.

Jim Fitzmaurice
jpfitz@fnal.gov

UNIX is very user friendly, It's just very particular about who it makes
friends with.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com]On Behalf Of John Horne
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:11 AM
> To: bb@bb4.com
> Subject: {bb} BB hardware
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've currently got BB (1.3a) running on a linux redhat 6.1 PC (pentium 75,
> 1GB disk, 80Mb memory). However, the system tends to get overloaded if we
> run Netscape (version 4.7) on it directly. The idea was to have the system
> performing the BB processing and to display it via Netscape so that
> admin/ops could 'glance' at it to get the general colour/status. Then, if
> not green, they'd look more closely using their own PC's and just pointing
> Netscape/IE to the system. The problem seems to be made worse by a flakey
> network, since then the system loses contact with several of the systems
> being monitored, and Netscape throws up an error saying its lost
> contact with
> the network. Admittedly this seems to happen during the night, but by the
> morning BB has started to report purple for everything! Great fun.
>
> Anyway, the question was simply what hardware do others run BB
> on? Do I need
> something with more clout than the P75? It is monitoring about 70
> systems -
> some for everything (smtp,ftp,ntp,dns,conn,msgs,backups,etc,etc), others,
> like some of the Novell servers, are just monitoring ipx connectivity.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
>
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> John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK             Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914
> E-mail: jhorne@plymouth.ac.uk
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