Hello! 2009/4/21 randall <randall at songshu.org>: > dear all, > > have been lurking this list for some weeks now and this is my first post, > apologies if the question has been answered already. > > i've been checking the example set ups etc.. and i noticed most of them show > some heavy processors, and actually i always thought that the processor does > not really matter that much for a file server. > anybody has a pointer to the (server side) processor requirements? AFAIK, the processor "just" affects performance. A while ago I tested one of the 1.3.x releases on two old Athlon 1,2 GHz machines sitting around in a university lab. IIRC, performance was limited by the 100Mbit/s Ethernet connection but processor load was close behind as a limiting factor. IMHO, testing would be the best way to find out if a machine meets your requirements. Searching the mailing-list archive might give some pointers. My suggestion: start with what you have, continue from there. That might be your desktop PC with virtual machines or a server that just got replaced and is going to be scrapped or reinstalled for some other use anyway. It might even be the new server that _has_to_be_load-tested_ ;-) before being used in the production environment. Harald St?rzebecher
