From: Christian D. <dab...@fh...> - 2012-02-23 07:39:43
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Hi all, I am running a test instance of vufind on a virtual machine. By now, it runs fine, but there are not many records on it. What hardware requierements does vufind have running as a live OPAC (with about 180.000 reocords)? I'd be lucky to know some numbers for RAM, HDD and CPU! Which experiences do you have running vufind on a VM? Thanks in advance! All best, Christian |
From: Mosior, B. <BEM...@sh...> - 2012-02-23 13:33:20
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We're not in any sort of official production, but currently our primary VuFind VM has 4 CPUs (I don't think that's necessary. 2 should suffice.) and 6 GB RAM. We have almost 8,000,000 records in total and our performance seems fine (Apache Solr is very forgiving). You could reasonably squeeze it into less than 50GB, I would imagine. Hope that helps! Ben From: Christian Dabrowski [mailto:dab...@fh...] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:21 AM To: vuf...@li... Subject: [VuFind-General] Hardware Requierements for Vufind Hi all, I am running a test instance of vufind on a virtual machine. By now, it runs fine, but there are not many records on it. What hardware requierements does vufind have running as a live OPAC (with about 180.000 reocords)? I'd be lucky to know some numbers for RAM, HDD and CPU! Which experiences do you have running vufind on a VM? Thanks in advance! All best, Christian |
From: Demian K. <dem...@vi...> - 2012-02-23 13:49:53
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180,000 records is a fairly modest index, so I don't think you should have trouble getting good performance out of VuFind even with lower-end hardware. The two key things to think about are RAM (the more memory you give to Solr, the faster it should be able to go - as long as you don't take things too far and choke out the operating system) and disk I/O (if you can't fit your entire index into memory, you need to be able to read it quickly from disk). When we did some experiments with VMs, we found that disk I/O was a big bottleneck since our VM environment had network-attached rather than local disk storage and our index is substantial (over a million records, some with significant amounts of full text - about 17GB.... though of course many people are running significantly larger indexes than that). Others have had better luck with different VM configurations, though. - Demian From: Christian Dabrowski [mailto:dab...@fh...] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:21 AM To: vuf...@li... Subject: [VuFind-General] Hardware Requierements for Vufind Hi all, I am running a test instance of vufind on a virtual machine. By now, it runs fine, but there are not many records on it. What hardware requierements does vufind have running as a live OPAC (with about 180.000 reocords)? I'd be lucky to know some numbers for RAM, HDD and CPU! Which experiences do you have running vufind on a VM? Thanks in advance! All best, Christian |