Re: Out of Box Experience for Cheetah.

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Tool said: >> If the assumption is to install on Linux, then one could simply walk >> through >> the boot up messages, such as what dmesg puts out, parse CPU information, >> or >> also parse /proc/cpuinfo or /proc/meminfo, etc. These information sources >> are >> relatively easy to find on Linux, however, it doesn't address other >> unix-type >> platforms, or Windows. > > Yes, it would be fairly easy to do with Linux, probably also easy but > different with (each different flavour of) Unix and possibly even easy but > different again with Windoze. > > That's why, as a first approximation, I'd suggest a handful of half-decent > options, it's easier than trying to suss every possible platform > accurately. > >> Might want a combination of a recommended choice based on your system or >> choose from a list. >> >> -t- >> >> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >>> DL Redden said: >>>> Wouldn't it be nice if the installer was smart enough to sniff out the >>>> machine info and suggest a reasonable list of configurations to choose >>>> from based on the machine size. That would be most useful for getting >>>> started right out of the box. >>> Although it's possible to write something that probed a box's config, it >>> would be a lot of very platform-specific maintenance. Maybe we could >>> write >>> something on a GPL basis as a community with designated maintenance >>> teams >>> for each supported platform ... ? >>> >> -- >> * >> * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVS3kdXycrM&mode=related&search= >> * >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Informix-list mailing list >> Informix-list@iiug.org >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is >> believed to be clean. >> > > Still leaves many questions which need some sort of "deduced" setting : RESIDENCY? All Partial None Kernel AIO? Yes / No Affinity? Yes / No / How many? Different Page Size dbspaces? Read Ahead? [L]TAPEDEV ... backups anyone? onbar? Enterprise Replication? HDR? Fragmentation? Having said that, I have scripts which generate "N" instances which could easily be adapted to include a "how big?" sort of set of questions, which include ER configuration, multiple temp dbspaces, environment setups yada yada yada. XPS has a "small / medium / large" sort of setting. One can get a fairly decent instance running in under 256 Mb. Still, I agree that it would be nice :D Oh, and turn OFF dynamic logs - or at least down to 1 - oh that won't work either :D I think it may be easier just to have 3 $ONCONFIGS, small / medium / large.