[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: doc / shortest_path_redhat7.2.txt

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Scott,

> System Requirements
> -------------------
> 
> It should be an intermediate-to-high-level
> performance workstation computer.  A ballpark suggestion
> is that it is PentiumII or greater, has 20 gigabytes of
> harddisk space, 256M RAM, and 400MHz CPU processing speed...

Please stop saying this it is a lie.

LON-CAPA will never run well except for about 20 - 30 students with
this machine, and people will start having trouble if there is any
degree of concurrency in student access. (The 1GHZ 512MB sever at
Charlotte fell over with 20 students and a 10 question .page
assignment. It wasn't pretty.)

The Apache children have no trouble hitting around 100 megs right now.

> A specifically high-level suggestion is a multi CPU machine
> (with a CPU speed of 1 gigahertz), a gigabyte of memory and
> at least 40 to 80 gigabytes of hard disk space.

I really think this is where anyone who is supporting any students
should start with.

> You can use a lesser machine for toying around with LON-CAPA (It will
> install an run for a single user on most anymachine) but if you wish
> to support students and you wish to support deadline crunches my
> suggestion is to go with the above.
> 
> LON-CAPA will work on any Intel-based RedHat compatible
> hardware.  And, unlike other software systems, it works
> comparatively well on dusty old crippled machines without
> much RAM or processing. 

This isn't true. It will install but it will not run well at all.


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