travis said:... that i frequently visit, this one is fast and clean. Most of the other boards that I visit run on Vbulletin, so what's the deal here?
travis said:... that i frequently visit, this one is fast and clean.
Carpetsmoker said:There are dual core P3's?
Carpetsmoker said:There are dual core P3's?
danger@ said:and it's run by FreeBSD people
anyway....this forum is running on vBulletin too (you may have already noticed) but we probably haven't grown to a state when number of posts/threads is a limiting factor.
BTW. the forum is running on a pretty old hardware (dual 1ghz p3 with 1gig of ram) so it's pretty interesting to read your post )
Does it really matter? I'd say40-50MB disk space used by MySQL.- How much disk space does the server have?
- How much is used by the DB? (does it use MySQL, Postgre, etc)
- What backups does BSD have if forums (or any other part of the site) goes down? Is there some backup system in place?
CodeBlock said:Few questions, not sure if you'll answer any/all of them, but I'm just curious:
- How much disk space does the server have?
- How much is used by the DB? (does it use MySQL, Postgre, etc)
- What backups does BSD have if forums (or any other part of the site) goes down? Is there some backup system in place?
I'm not a script kiddie, I'm just curious as to see what kind of specs run a real, popular, bsd server . If you'd feel better to PM (or not respond at all) that's fine, I'm just curious.
brd@ said:As the admin and the guy that provided the hardware, let me answer these questions. I'll also just mention that this was hardware I had laying around and if it failed I would order new hardware right away.
- ~70GB in a RAID5.
- ~104M (MySQL is required by vB).
- We use the wonderful Tarsnap backup service that was created by Colin Percival, The FreeBSD Security Officer.
Is it a ZFS (Raid-Z), vinum or a geom-raid5 solution?brd@ said:As the admin and the guy that provided the hardware, let me answer these questions.
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- ~70GB in a RAID5.
- ~104M (MySQL is required by vB)
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dclau said:Is it a ZFS (Raid-Z), vinum or a geom-raid5 solution?
If it's a geom-raid5, which 'flavour' (TNG, PP or the plain one)?
Geom-raid5 left me with a bitter taste in my mouth (TNG and PP, then i just lost appetite), i guess there must be a a solid reason for the module being stuck in the 'unofficial' state. Also, raid5 never used to be the best solution for databases, but this forum delivers the spin, greatly... There must be some trick, somewhere
Would you please dismiss the mistery?
Thank you for explaining, have a great day everyone.brd@ said:It is hardware based RAID-5.
The database is quite small, so RAID-5 is ok in this case.
DutchDaemon said:Dual Processor, yes, Dual Core, no: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon#Pentium_III_Xeon
I think all Pentium 4 CPUs were single core as well.
The first Dual Core Xeon only came along in 2005 (the PIII Xeon was from 1999 ..) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon#Dual-Core_Xeon