Hi Dave,

I'm running Hobbit on a Sun/Sparc/Solaris 9 box which is slightly more up-spec (but only just!) than your options:

bash-3.2$ prtdiag System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire V210 System clock frequency: 167 MHZ Memory size: 512MB

==================================== CPUs

           E$          CPU                  CPU     Temperature

CPU Freq Size Implementation Mask Die Amb. Status Location

0 1002 MHz 1MB SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi 2.4 - - online MB/P0

I currently monitor about 120 devices and my server is also hardly breaking a sweat. CPU load average is usually steady at 0.2, and it uses about 70-80% real memory.

This server also runs a legacy Informix/4GL application, I use devmon to monitor around a dozen devices, and I use a few custom shell scripts for RRD graph generation.

I suspect any of the servers you listed would be fine for Hobbit in this size deployment.

HTH, Andy.

From: Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:haertig at avaya.com] Sent: Tuesday, 3 July 2007 10:50 a.m. To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Estimating hardware needs for Hobbit server

Hi -

I'm currently running my Hobbit server/Apache on Linux-based Dell Dimension desktop with the following:

grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 2075380 kB

grep name /proc/cpuinfo

model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz

It's not even breathing hard. It's just sitting there idle for the most part. (CPU load 0.02, physical mem used 35%, real mem 12%, nothing ever swapped)

I found some older Sun hardware in the lab that I'm considering using as a replacement, but I don't know how it's specs would compare. I'm not familiar with Sun/Sparc hardware all that much. Can anyone comment on if what I've scrounged up might be adequate? At most, I'd expect to eventually monitor several dozen servers, but probably no more than 100.

Ultra 5 Ultra 10 (350 MGz, 512 MB RAM) E420R (2 - 450 MHz CPUs, 2 GB RAM)

Thanks!

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