[rt-users] [Fwd: Re: Hardware Config]

[Calvin Chiang]

Hi there,

i've been running RT 3.8.1 in an ubuntu8.04 vm on vmware esxi (free) for 
just over two weeks.
the VM is super weedy - 32bit, 256MB RAM, vdisk size 2GB , havent put 
any settings on processor limits yet.

It's running on local storage on a really on Dell blade.

It's my IT support RT system, so at present i'm the only one who uses 
it. it gets about 10 new tickets a day, and 50ish transactions a day. it 
handles everything pretty well for such a slow machine...

Cassandra L. Brockett wrote:
> I run it that way in production here, I also happen to have a copy of the machine that I use for testing major changes, etc...
>
> I did not that 3.4 and 3.6 where horribly slow for us, but it turned out to be a fault of the way that those revisions used the PostgreSQL backend, not RT or the system, 3.8.2 is screaming along for us.
>
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> Cass
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Tim Cutts
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 1:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Hardware Config
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> I've been following this discussion (rather belatedly) with some interest.  One thing I haven't heard anyone discuss yet:
>
> Has anyone tried running RT in a virtual machine?  I'm about to move our RT 3.4.2 server onto a virtual machine.  I've configured the RT VM to be actually really quite weedy (32-bit and only 2 GB RAM), and perhaps I need to change that, but I figure that VMware ESX probably does quite a good job of caching the disk its using anyway.  The actual physical hardware is a quad socket quad core machine with 64 GB of RAM.  The underlying storage is StorageWorks EVA on a SAN, so it should be pretty quick.
>
> Has anyone tried this sort of thing?  Am I about to burn myself badly?  Our turnover of tickets is pretty low - only a few hundred tickets a week.
>
> Tim
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Calvin Chiang
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-- 
Calvin Chiang
Network Admin
Utilyx
1st Floor, 55 North Wharf Road
Paddington
London, W2 1LA
Tel: 020 7087 8673
www.utilyx.com


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