Hey all,
You might not have noticed but the GnuCash "everything" server
crashed multiple times over the weekend.. These issues have
been happening more frequently, and it's clearly a hardware
issue. It COULD be a bad stick of RAM, or it could be a
mobo issue. I could spend time trying to debug it, or,
considering the machine is a 1-core Celeron 2.4GHz machine
that was acquired four or five years ago, maybe replace it
with something more modern.
If I were to replace the hardware I think it would provide
more than just SVN, Wiki, and Email service. I was thinking
that it would be nice to also provide nightly build services
on various OSes, perhaps using mock to build on various RedHat
and Fedora systems and providing a few Win32 VMs for dev and
test services?
I'm looking at two difference potential boxes and looking
for input from the people out there who might have additional
knowledge.
Config 1 ($2974):
- 2x Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® L5420 2.50GHz 1333FSB 12MB Cache (50W)
- Low Voltage
- 4x 4GB PC2-5400 667MHz FB-DIMM
- 4x 750GB SATA 7200RPM - 3.5" - Seagate Barracuda® ES.2
Config 2 ($3468):
- 2x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Model 2378 - 2.4GHz 6MB L3 Cache (75W)
- 8x 2GB PC2-5300 667MHz DDR2 ECC Registered
- 4x 750GB SATA 7200RPM - 3.5" - Seagate Barracuda® ES.2
Any suggestions or comments on these configs? I really don't
have a good feel for the differences between the various CPUs,
both within a line and between Intel and AMD. In particular I
suspect I'll just be running vmware-server on the base box and
then everything else will be in VMs.
Comments? Suggestions?
-derek
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