[Moodle] Ideal Server Specs for Moodle?

[Laurie Savage]

sorry - pressed send too soon! Your Gentoo server should be able to 
handle many more than 30 simultaneous requests to moodle provided you've 
made any of the config changes Moodle recommends in PHP.ini and your 
apache config file. We manage about 75 with no noticeable slow down and 
we should be able to serve 100s more.

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

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Laurie Savage
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