From: "Malcolm Bodger" <M.Bodger AT westminster.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:43:20 -0000
| Threading: | ↑ [EP-tech] Adding RAM to EPrints server -- will it speed it up? from A.Birchall AT mdx.ac.uk • This Message |
Hi Alex, It sounds like quite an old server, so maybe the processor could do with an ↵ upgrade too. Why not buy a new server? It's 27 years since I left Middlesex and getting new kit was never easy in ↵ those days, so maybe nothing has changed. By the way, what's the network like? Regards, Malcolm. This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named only and may ↵ be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must not copy or show ↵ them to anyone, nor should you take any action based on them, other than to ↵ notify the error by replying to the sender. ________________________________ From: eprints-tech-bounces AT ecs.soton.ac.uk on behalf of Alex Birchall Sent: Wed 10/03/2010 16:03 To: eprints-tech AT ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: [EP-tech] Adding RAM to EPrints server -- will it speed it up? Hi All, Our EPrints server currently has 512 MB of RAM. My question is, How certain can we be that increasing the RAM to 2GB (the maximum the motherboard will support) will improve its performance --- it can be very slow at times? The reason I ask is that, although I am fairly confident that dramatically increasing the RAM should improve the performance of a web server, I just want to know what others -- with more experience of EPrints servers than I -- think. I have been told by the powers that the money is available for this upgrade if I am sure that it will have the desired result. I wouldn't like to find that increasing the RAM has very little effect on performance! Best regards, Alex Alexander J Birchall Library Systems Manager Middlesex University The Sheppard Library The Burroughs London NW4 4BT Tel 0208 411 5235 *** Options: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/eprints-tech *** Archive: http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/ *** EPrints community wiki: http://wiki.eprints.org/ -- The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK.ATTACHMENT: message.html!
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