Re: RFC - Survey (not sales!)

Posted in 2000

Topics: Storage & Space Management, Server Administration, Platform-Specific Issues

Brett Geer — Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:08:05 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> I only run NT on my laptop, and I'm signed up to a campaign in the company > to allow field staff to run Linux and VMWare. > > 10 is really S80/V-class/E10K/O2000 territory. I'd rate this place about a > 7. I think we'll add another level (11) ... showoff level. We've seen the people here with > 8 processors, more gb of ram than the rest of us have disk space. Disk cache hardware with more ram on it than my machine has for the system. Forget getting a life, I need a new job brett -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... rm is forever ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------

↪ replying to Brett Geer

Obnoxio The Clown — Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:50:48 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In the year of Our Lord Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:08:05 +0200, Brett Geer <brett@brabys.co.za> broke a vow of silence to utter: > >> I only run NT on my laptop, and I'm signed up to a campaign in the company >> to allow field staff to run Linux and VMWare. >> >> 10 is really S80/V-class/E10K/O2000 territory. I'd rate this place about a >> 7. > >I think we'll add another level (11) ... showoff level. > >We've seen the people here with > 8 processors, more gb of ram than >the rest of us have disk space. Disk cache hardware with more ram on it >than my machine has for the system. My last site was: 1x Sun E6500, 12 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR primary and transaction server) 1x Sun E4500, 10 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR secondary and query only server) 26x Compaq NT, 4 CPUs, 4GB RAM (web servers) Also about 3 E4500's as dev and test boxes, plus more 450's than you can shake a stick at. I'd definitely rate them an 11. :-)