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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, July 27, 2007 10:01 pm, Instruct ICC wrote:
> >>From: "Richard Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > 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...
>
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