[Opensource] Moodle Server Specs

[Jim Maunder]

Hello Jack -

Since no-one has answered your questions yet (other than offer 
alternatives) I've tried to suss out some:

Q1: see here: http://lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=tools
     and here: http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497 
for a bit of a discussion about same. The brief answer is yes, the 
limit is 10 complete connections. The first link has a tool that 
might let you increase the limit (if the TEFOL ppl let you fiddle).

Q2: Hard to say - I suspect the throughput requirements of a web 
based thingy would not be great, but the limiting factor in this case 
would be the performance of the disk, not the USB port (unless it was 
a USB1 port).

As an aside, I use a WinXP desktop as an FTP server for imaging - 1 
connection goes like lightning (8 mins to do an image), 2 goes at 
less that half throughput (20-30mins to do both), 6 crawls (2 hours 
to do all 6), so performance is not linear. This might have something 
to do with the large files being processed.

Q3: Since it's a web server it probably does not matter all that 
much. 1gig might do. Our internet/intranet server has 2gig for 
several hundred connections.

rgds
Jim
(top posting for a change)
(and who has SuSE9 and Win3.11 running in MS Virtual Machines, but 
could not get *buntu to install because of the graphics problem even 
after reading the workaround)


At 07:58 PM 26/05/2008, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>With a bit of tweaking an PHP editing I have finally got a Moodle 
>server running perfectly on a portable USB laptop drive.  This means 
>I can plug it in anywhere an it will start the server.  I can't have 
>a physical server.....long story.
>
>Anyway, here are my questions
>
>I tested out the server with some students today on a Quiz and it 
>did not cope that well.  I had 25 students in the class and the 
>server was running on WIN XP.  I understand that WIN XP has a 
>connection limit.
>
>1.  Will running the server off WIN XP restrict me to 10 connections 
>regardless of what I try? (ie. only 10 people will be able to 
>complete the quiz at a time)
>2.  Will running off a USB drive severely harm performance.  (Is is 
>possible to 25 students to complete a quiz from a Server running 
>from a USB laptop drive?)
>3.  How much RAM would be desirable for 25 students doing a quiz?
>
>Thanks
>-Jack Matthews


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Jim Maunder
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Ruyton Girls School
Melbourne, Australia
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