richard, ive seen plenty of scenarios where the dev box has to be pretty tough itself. i think it depends mostly on how much load its taking on. say you have 30 developers or so working on a few different viirtual sites simultaneously. now add in the problems that occur during development, like my favorite, the infinite loop. yeah ive seen dev boxes just chill at 99% cpu and we're taking 2xp3 xeon w/ a few gigs of ram in it. not saying OP is dealing w/ sucha scenario just daying sometimes dev boxes need some juice too. i found out about the linux vserver project<http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org>only recently, but this is a nice solution. you can get one decent box and throw dev, qa, stage, w/e on there. (and obviously thata may not be practical depending on hardware reqs) if youre running linux that is :) -nathan On 7/29/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, July 27, 2007 10:01 pm, Instruct ICC wrote: > >>From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > But xdebug and apd are probably moot. > >> > > >> > BTW, I'm not using separate development and production machines. > >> > >>Right there is your first problem. > >> > >>Solve that first. > > > > If you mean get a dev box. You don't know how long I've been asking > > for one > > to match the production box. > > Your dev box should only match in software versions (okay, and any > really funky specialized hardware like a hardware random number > generator MAYBE). > > Don't ask them for a Gigaplex Mu-on 16-cpu 64 Gig RAM 4 Terabyte hard > drive box. > > Take an old box out of your closet and install the same versions of > the OS, Webserver, DB, and PHP and call it done. > > Now, a QA box, where you do load-testing and serious "release > candidate" testing, yeah, THAT should match the production box, if at > all possible... > > -- > Some people have a "gift" link here. > Know what I want? > I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. > http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch > Yeah, I get a buck. So? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
