[Zope] system requirements

[Dennis Allison]

I'm about to put together a production machine as well and so have been
thinking about the issues and cost/performance trade-offs.  Comments on 
hidden gotchas would be particularly welcome.  Have there been problems 
with dual processor Linuz systems and ZServer?

Software:  Zope 2.5.X and CMF 1.3, ZServer + Squid  No Apache -- this 
will be a dedicated Zope system.  RH 7.2 with lots of cruft removed.
MySQL.

Hardware:   Dual AMD Athlon processors (2+ GHz)
            Tyan motherboard with 760 chipset?
	    1GB DDR memory with ECC. (2GB if budget allows) 
	    10/100 Ethernet
            CDROM (for loading...)
	    Floppy (for bootloading/rescue)
            40 GB+ disk (probably IDE)
            SCSI
            Display controller (for configuration)
	    2U rackmount box with big fans 

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Matthew T. Kromer wrote:

> >I need to quote for a fairly big Zope site and I am trying to work out
> >what sort of spec machine I will need for hosting.
> >
> >The brief is for a minimum of 50 concurrent users, rising to a possible
> >2000. They will be doing a lot of searching on the site, and there will
> >be quite a lot of e-mails sent out by Zope. The site will also use an
> >SQL database - either mySQL or postgreSQL.
> >
> >My current thinking is: 
> >
> > - Linux: RedHat?
> > - Zope with ZEO in case it expands beyond one box
> > - Apache
> > - Squid?
> > - 512 MB RAM
> > - 18 GB SCSI with RAID
> > - 1.8 GHZ processor
> >
> >Am I along the right lines?
> >