Questions tagged [server-hardware]
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How many socket connections possible?
Has anyone an idea how many tcp-socket connections are possible on a modern standard Linux server?
(There is in general less traffic on each connection, but all the connections have to be up all the time.)
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How do you determine the hardware needed for a server?
I would like to know how do you determine the hardware needed for a server?
I have a DB Server running MySQL, and now I want to buy a server, but I don't know what hardware specification that I need. This is a server for a hosting a web…
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Is it excessive to own server hardware?
Since there is a large pool of passionate developers in this community, I would like to gather your opinions on this matter - do you think it is excessive, or advantageous, to purchase and operate actual server hardware at home to spice your own…
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Do Kubernetes worker nodes have to have exactly the same hardware and OS?
When I use to build Hypervisor (i.e. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.) clusters, ALL the hardware and software has to be exactly the same. Otherwise I ran the possibility that the workload could run into a 'conflict' (i.e. the VM won't run because the hardware…
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How to program hardware performance counters
I've been dealing with this problem for my thesis.
The goal is to develop a .net server monitoring tool specifically for windows 2K8 servers.
So far, all I can access are software performance counters. Meaning those that are available through…
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Server Costs for a Computing-Intense Application?
I have a scientific application that I built in Python (the application's 'critical areas' are optimized with Cython, for increased speed).
Every instance of the application is given a text file (with parameters) an an input. The application reads…
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Setting up dedicated build PC - suggestions needed
we are thinking about buying and setting up a new PC to use as a nightly build PC. We are planning to install Visual C++ 2005/2008, SVN etc. However we need to compile our app:
for 32 and 64 bit
on 2 different linux distros
so we think we can…
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Hardware requirements for .net Application in Production server
I have developed my ASP.net application with SQL Server 2005 which as installed version
of .net Framework 2.0.
Please some one suggest what are the hardware requirements (windows server) to host in Production server and its configuration
to host the…
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MySQL Cluster Node Specific Hardware
I am looking at setting up a MySQL Cluster with two high end dell servers (duel opteron 4386 cpus, 16gb ram and RAID 10 SAS). I also have a handful of other high end machines that are i7 with 20gb+ ram each on average.
What is the hardware focus for…
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MySQL/Apache redundant server setup
I am going to buy two servers shortly which will be exact copies of each other in terms of hardware, software and WAMP setup.
I would like to give my users maximum up-time by having one of the servers as a live backup of the other one.
That is, when…
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