Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 10:38:01 -0600 From: "Thatcher Hubbard" <hubbardj@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Server config questions: Message-ID: <000001bf6ff7$5e0ed9a0$4501a8c0@tellico>
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Hi everyone, I'm betting a few of these have been answered in the general on various lists already but the list search engine is down and I have a machine I need to build on Monday. Basically, after months of prodding, cajoling, and convincing, my shop finally decided to give me a real server to server our intranet site off of rather than the Dell Optiplex desktop I'd been using. The Dell was running FreeBSD. They also decided that UNIX was a better solution than NT, and why shouldn't we continue to use a free one? So I have a Compaq Proliant 6500. It's a beast, 2 500Mhz Xeons with 2MB of cache, 512MB of RAM, a SmartArray RAID controller and 5 9.1GB 10k drives. But I have a couple of questions on how I should set it up. The machine will be running Apache, PHP4, and MySQL to serve web. I also have to run Samba off of it so the developers can use Homesite to edit their code. There is no plan to run any other services off of it. First, how large should I make my swap partition? 1GB? That's twice the RAM size, which is what I usually use for workstations, but do things change on hardware this large? Also, will I have to specify how much RAM the machine has or will FreeBSD correctly detect that? My idea for drive setup is like this. Use one of the drives for /,/usr/,/var,/home,/usr/local, etc. Then RAID 0+1 the other four. Put my web sources trees and the mysql data there. Our long term needs for storage space don't amount to much, I could probably do this with 4.3GB drives but they aren't much cheaper than the 9s anymore. Is this a reasonable configuration or am I doing something stupid here. Oh, the whole thing will be backed up using BRU to a Quantum DLT4000. Does anyone have anything to say about the ida driver for the SmartArray controller? Does it work properly, and how do I set it up (I can't find a single page saying anything about that). I know I'm asking for a lot of information here, so thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to read this and respond. I appreciate it. Thatcher Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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