[rt-users] absolutely minimal hardware requirements to run RT

[Gentgeen]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:20:06 +0100
Mariusz Stakowski <StakowskiM at prokom.pl> wrote:

>                                 Hello list,
> 
>                 I'm trying to convince my colleagues to use RT. I have
>                 
> installed it on my home PC, so I can learn the RT. I would like to 
> demonstrate the RT at work, and here is my problem. All I can have as
> a  hardware is an old PC - Pentium II 233MHz, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD. 
> So I have chosen :
> Slackware 11 with:
> Apache 1.3.37 
>  MySQL 5.0.24 
> sendmail.  8.13.8
> 
> I have installed
> RT 3.6.1
> and 
> mod_perl 1.27,
> 
>         Window manager - fcde, internet browser - seamonkey. It seems
>         it 
> is capable to work, but it "normally" dies after home page and t it
> never  goes any further. Or it is extremely slow (even for me).
>         All I want is to demonstrate basic  RT functionalities. I
>         think 
> there would be no more than 100 of tickets and about five users. And
> the  response time could be about 5 seconds (or at least less  than 
> user  "patience limit" ). I have not done yet  any performance tuning.
> 
> So my question is - is it at all possible to make RT working in this
> way  on such hardware ? (I can not increase RAM - "upgrade of such an
> old PC is  too expensive")
> 
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any help
> 
>  
> Best regards
> 
> Mariusz Stakowski


Could you take this computer into work, and then use a different machine
to access the webGUI.  Seems to me that Apache+MySQL+window
manager+seamonkey would really pull this machine to a crawl (or even a
freezing halt).


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