Re: [Koha-devel] What Server Specs do YOU run Koha on?

[Michael Hafen]

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For Washington County School District

Koha:
Customized 2.2.5 install
        Moved marc_word and marc_subfield_table to mysql InnoDB engine
        Semi-Dynamic link to MSSQL 2005 based Student Information System for
Patron Info
5 Elementary Branches
4 Secondary Branches
2 Office Branches

Biblios: 49888
Items: 97419
Approx. Issues / Month (Oct.): 13747
Approx. Issues / Year:  103346

Frontend:
Dell PowerEdge 2950
2 Core 2 Duo Xeon @ 2 Ghz
4 Gb RAM
60 Gb Hard Drive Raid1 SAS

Backend:
2 Dell PowerEdge 2850 Fail-over cluster shared with other software
2 Core Duo Xeon @ 2.8 Ghz
4 Gb RAM
2 FC NIC Fail-over to SAN based 100Gb Raid5 SAS


Rarely a catalog search will take a couple minutes.  Other than that
it's great.  This hardware will also run Koha 3 as soon as I'm happy
with it and have ported some of my customizations.  I'll put Zebra on
the frontend.

On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 11:21 -0500, Joshua Ferraro wrote:
> Hiya folks,
> 
> Recently we've had a lot of people ask about recommended server specs
> for Koha. This is a tough question to answer because it comes loaded with
> assumptions about the size of the collection, transaction load, etc. So I was
> wondering if those of you who are running Koha in your libraries could just
> post a quick email to the list saying how large your collection is, number of
> transactions, what server specs you use (proc speed, RAM, disk space, etc.),
> and how the performance has been for you ... and then we can compile
> that as part of the FAQ.
> 
> Cheers,
>