My vote is option 2 as well. Chris
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:02 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Even though I "control" the donation account, I felt it only > appropriate to obtain approval from the developer community > before using it for anything. My "request" is to purchase > more memory for the server. > > Currently the server has 512MB of DDR333 SDRAM. Right now it's using > all that RAM and sitting in swap: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] httpd]# free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 513096 505968 7128 0 72704 204336 > -/+ buffers/cache: 228928 284168 > Swap: 1046192 270748 775444 > > I think this is mostly due to the change to svn. The apache > servers are sitting with 20-40M virtual size each (10-20MB > resident), and the mailman runner is sitting at 100MB VSS. > I honestly don't think we're running anything extraordinary, > and the server load is pretty low, so perhaps I'm just being > alarmist about using up 25% of our swap space. But that's > why I'm sending out this RFC -- to get your opinions. > > The server has an open memory slot. According to crucial.com, > our system can hold up to 2GB of RAM and has two banks > of one slot: > > > http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=Dell%2BDimension+%2F+Dimension+XPS&mfr=Dell&tabid=AM&model=Dimension+2400+Series&submit=Go > > I see two choices (well, three): > > 0: Do nothing. (this was my "well, third" choice) > 1: Pay $64 for 512MB to bring total memory to 1GB > 2: Pay $151 for 1GB to bring total memory to 1.5GB > (note that prices above do not include taxes and shipping) > > I'd like to hear from you developers about what you think. > I'll note that we have plenty of cash in the donation jar > to pay for either option. > > I'm not in any hurry to make this purchase.. Indeed I don't plan > to do anything about this until January (I was going to order > the RAM at the end of this month). > > Please let me know what you think. (Feel free to respond personally > and I can summerize if you don't want to respond to the list). > > Thanks, > > -derek -- RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490. Checkpoint Certified Security Expert 2000 & NG -------------------------------------------- |^| | | |^| | |^| | | Life out here is raw | | |^| | But we will never stop | |_|_| | We will never quit | / __> | cause we are Metallica |/ / | \ / | | -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
