[Moodle] Ideal Server Specs for Moodle?

[Laurie Savage]

RedHat 7.3! A bit long in the tooth, and I made the same mistake because 
the older version of Debian was a cow to install. The latest Debian has 
a very slick but text based installation system and upgrades itself with 
no fuss.

Laurie

Paul Williamson wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> We started out with Moodle running on a Celeron 900/1gb sdram/40gb ide,
> running RedHat 7.3. This was alright until a class of about 25 people were
> clicking all over everything. The server struggled to render the php for
> all the requests. I spent quite some time modifying apache settings with
> no success. It was a good platform to begin testing on, however not
> acceptable for class use as the whole class would be waiting 5 minutes per
> click.
> 
> We setup a new machine to run moodle. P4 3.0 ghz / 1gb ddr / 2x120gb sata
> hdd (not raid). We have no delays at all with 30 people on at once -
> havent had a situation where more students have been on at a time yet. The
> new server runs Gentoo Linux, which is a little less straight forward to
> setup compared with Mandrake/Redhat, however has a similar feature to yum
> or apt-get (emerge), which can save a lot of time. Packages are compiled
> from source to directly suit your machines architecture.
> 
> 1-2 GB of RAM I would say is necessary - you could get away with 512.
> Processor on the other hand, anything over 2ghz should do the deal (i
> would stay away from celerons/semprons) and a fast hdd (anything new).
> 
> Here is a page on the Moodle site about hardware
> requirements/recommendations:
> http://docs.moodle.org/en/Performance
> 
> HTH
> 
> Paul Williamson
> Network Administrator, Huntingtower School
> http://www.huntingtower.vic.edu.au
> paulw at huntingtower.vic.edu.au
> Phone: 03 9831 9463
> Mobile: 0433 167 247
> Fax: 03 9888 1089
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Keith Richardson said:
>> Hi Moodlers one and all.
>> Information request please...
>> We are launching into Moodle
>> Our server (a re-cycled old one for initial development prior to classes
>> using it) is <<P3, 800MHz, single-processor, 128Mb RAM>>
>> What should I be aiming at?
>> Will simply upping RAM to, say, 1Gb be sufficient? Or should I invest
>> considerably more?
>> Ciao, Keith
>> Keith Richardson
>> Leibler Yavneh College
>> Elsternwick Ph (03)9528 4911
>> keithcr at fastmail.fm
>>
> 
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