[AG-TECH] Venue and Bridge Server specs

Natalia Costas Lago natalia at cesga.es
Fri Jun 10 02:14:46 CDT 2005



Is it dual or single processor?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd Zimmerman" <toddz at sfu.ca>
To: "Andrew Rowley" <Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk>
Cc: "'ag-tech'" <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Venue and Bridge Server specs


> Agreed on the crashing.  Our venueserver hasn't had any problems and it 
> runs 24/7.  It usually only needs to be restarted about once ever month or 
> so...
>
> Concerning configuration and setup, our main venueserver runs on the same 
> machine as one of our bridges, while a second machine serves mostly as a 
> second bridge (geographically separated) but can serve as a backup 
> venueserver in times of crisis.
>
> One machine is a P3 1Ghz, the other a P4 2.8Ghz, both with 2 GB of mem.
>
> Neither has had an issue with performance and we host some fairly large 
> meetings occassionally...
>
> Todd
>
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> Derek Piper wrote:
>>
>>     Your VenueServer crashes a lot? hmm. I actually run ours on the same 
>> machine that does our Audio and Video for the node we have here. This was 
>> simple because when I was installing it last year, it was deemed that 
>> that was 'the AccessGrid Linux machine'. Whether that's smart or not, I 
>> don't know, but I've found it to be very stable. It's a single P4/3Ghz 
>> with 1GB RAM. The machine was recently reformatted and reinstalled (now 
>> Debian Sarge instead of RedHat 9) because of a failing harddrive (Dell 
>> and their Maxtors ... sheesh). The VenueServer had to be restarted 
>> occaisionally, but I'm thinking it was a few months between intervals. We 
>> have a bridge server on a different machine (another 3Ghz P4 that does 
>> web stuff), since because of the audio and video VICs on the AV machine, 
>> they cannot occupy the same machine.
>>
>>     Derek
>>
>> Andrew Rowley wrote:
>>
>>> Relating to this, I also wondered if people generally run their bridge
>>> server and venue server on the same of separate machines?
>>>
>>> We currently run ours on the same machine (a P4 1.7Ghz with 512MB RAM). 
>>> The
>>> venueserver crashes fairly often, and I sometimes find that restarting 
>>> the
>>> bridge server helps, so I assume the bridge server sometimes puts a lot 
>>> of
>>> load on the server.
>>>
>>> Andrew :)
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>>> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On 
>>> Behalf
>>> Of Natalia Costas Lago
>>> Sent: 09 June 2005 08:39
>>> To: ag-tech
>>> Subject: [AG-TECH] Venue and Bridge Server specs
>>>
>>>  Dear all,
>>>  Seeking for some information related to the hardware I need for our own
>>> venue/bridge server I found two threads with no answer to this question. 
>>> It seems to me that the venue server doesnt need heavy resources, but 
>>> I'm
>>> not so sure about the bridge server.
>>>  I would really appreciate the sites that hold/organise very big 
>>> meetings (as
>>> Argonne with SCGlobal for instance), and have much experience in these
>>> matters, give us some guidelines about the specs recommended (or the
>>> place/website where I could gather some information).  Kind regards,
>>> Natalia.
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