<div>Although users can tinker with a baby server setup, any serious network application needs to have decent hardware or you will have performacne issues. Not sure of the minimum specs but 18 months ago we decided on a hardware upgrade for one of our servers.
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<div>Our Moodle linux box also handles a suite of other Internet and network functions (squid proxy, filtering, charging, monitoring etc .. ) and runs Novell SUSE Linux NOS. It is an Atlos G520 server with 2 x Xenon 2.8 Ghz processors, 2 Gb DDR-DRAM and 3 x 75 Gb 10000 SCSI drives and raid controller .. purchased it about 18 months ago. Looks like the death star and humms along like Yoda.
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<div>Regards Roland</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/07/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Morrison</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew.morrison@eq.edu.au">andrew.morrison@eq.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Can be used with a WAMP setup (<a href="http://www.wampserver.com">www.wampserver.com</a>)<br><br>Im surprised, with those specs that you are having those issues for 30
<br>students. Are they just browsing all at the same time or doing a range of<br>things like file uploads, or all initiating chat sessions etc?<br><br><a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1199">http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1199
</a><br><br>That hardware, I am surprised for 30 kids why it doesn't work OK.<br><br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Peter Cruickshank [mailto:<a href="mailto:cruipe@internal.nyandashs.qld.edu.au">cruipe@internal.nyandashs.qld.edu.au
</a>]<br>> Sent: Tuesday, 11 July 2006 3:08 PM<br>> To: qsite-lan<br>> Cc: 'Peter Cruickshank'; 'qsite-lan'<br>> Subject: [qsite-lan_qsite_edu_au] Re: Moodle Specs<br>><br>> Sorry, I thought Moodle only ran under Linux :-)
<br>><br>> Current specs are:<br>> 512 Mb RAM<br>> 600 Mhz Celeron<br>><br>> Yeah, yeah, I know, but it's just a test situation. Would<br>> like to know what server we really need to fully implement Moodle
<br>><br>> Cheers & Beers<br>><br>> Cruickers<br>><br>> Andrew Morrison wrote:<br>><br>> >I wouldn't be running it with under 256mb of ram on an old<br>> p4 (unless<br>> >it's a linux distro).
<br>> ><br>> >Do you have win2k or 2k3 installed on the box?<br>> ><br>> >Andrew.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >-----Original Message-----<br>> >From: Peter Cruickshank [mailto:
<a href="mailto:cruipe@internal.nyandashs.qld.edu.au">cruipe@internal.nyandashs.qld.edu.au</a>]<br>> >Sent: Tuesday, 11 July 2006 1:21 PM<br>> >To: qsite-lan<br>> >Subject: [qsite-lan_qsite_edu_au] Moodle Specs
<br>> ><br>> >Hi all,<br>> ><br>> >We've installed a test version of Moodle on an old box, but when we<br>> >load it up with about 30 users, it really dies - 100% CPU<br>> utilisation,<br>
> >page file swapoing etc. What specs should we be looking at for a<br>> >server to drive Moodle?<br>> ><br>> >Thanks in advance<br>> ><br>> >--<br>> >Cheers & Beers<br>> >
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