[Opensim-users] Hosting a medium-sized grid
Dahlia Trimble
dahliatrimble at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 20:01:54 UTC 2014
Looks to me like you have almost 5 gb free ram.
http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Jeff Kelley <opensim at pescadoo.net> wrote:
> I'm porting a grid from a home PC to a server.
>
> The grid is 40 regions large, 16 simulators, 5 to 10 avatars.
>
> It runs today on a i7-2700K (8,921 PassMarks), 16Gb home PC.
>
> A quick test on a 16Gb Xeon gives these stats:
>
> top - 17:49:03 up 14 days, 7:04, 19 users, load average: 0.40, 0.64, 0.77
> Tasks: 208 total, 2 running, 206 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 9.8 us, 1.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 88.4 id, 0.2 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
> 0.0 st
> KiB Mem: 16483288 total, 16185604 used, 297684 free, 456872 buffers
> KiB Swap: 523260 total, 29192 used, 494068 free. 4718744 cached Mem
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 15G 15G 318M 37M 446M 4.5G
> -/+ buffers/cache: 10G 5.2G
> Swap: 510M 28M 482M
>
>
> The grid runs quite well but 16Gb is a little short, so I will go for a 24
> or 32Gb machine. This is (obviously, or I won't ask here) a non-profit
> project, on a personal budget.
>
> Here is my dilemma : in the target price range, I can have two machines:
>
> - Two Xeon E5530 (7,723 PassMarks), 8 core total, 24Gb, rotating disk
> - Single Xeon E3 1225v2 (6,844 PassMarks), 4 core, 32Gb, 3x120Gb SSD
>
> Should I favour CPU over memory? Memory over SSD?
>
> Which one would you pick?
>
>
>
> -- Jeff
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