Posted by pshafer on April 12, 2012 at 3:23pm
Would anyone like to share how much disk space their OpenScholar deployment is using? We are looking to deploy an instance at our school on a VM and I would like to get a nice estimate on disk usage so that I can appropriately create a specification. Any suggestions on how I should estimate this?
Thanks in advance.
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Disk space will vary based on
Disk space will vary based on the size and number of file uploads, this can all be tweaked with user quotas and file size limits.
I would make sure your VM has plenty of memory since the OpenScholar drupal install uses quite a few modules. I would give your php instance 256MB if you can or as much as you can afford. Also I would enable APC and give it at last 128MB so that all of your opcode can be cached.
-RB
I'd also be interested in
I'd also be interested in people's experience with hardware requirements. I'm currently running an OpenScholar installation (with only a few users and very little traffic on an Amazon EC2 micro instance (LAMP with 613MB RAM, 128MB assigned to PHP) and the site is pretty slow. Usable, but definitely not great. Do I need a server with more memory? Or are there ways to optimize my installation, maybe by disabling some unused modules?
Harald.
Update
Replying to myself: After having the OpenScholar installation running for a while, it turned out that a micro instance is just not powerful enough. Switching to a "small" instance on EC2 led to huge improvements in performance. I suspect it's mostly about the RAM (1.7GB vs. 613MB).
vgXhc: how many users are you
vgXhc: how many users are you serving?