On 12 Oct 2009, at 17:29, Simon George wrote:
> Can it be run on a 32-bit box then?
Yes. It's a working squid service we need. You can run it on an
Itanium for all I care :-)
Graeme
> The "recommended environment" specifies 64-bit.
> But 32 is all we have spare in the short term.
>
> Graeme Stewart wrote:
>> On 12 Oct 2009, at 13:46, Elena Korolkova wrote:
>>> Couple of more questions on squid server:
>>>
>>> should it run on sl5?
>> No. Run it on what ever works best for you.
>>>
>>> is 200+ GB disk essential requirement for a small site?
>> No. I think the machine specs are a bit OTT. It's far better to
>> have it, even on a low spec box, than to not have it.
>> Cheers
>> Graeme
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Elena
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Graeme Stewart wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9 Oct 2009, at 18:03, Elena Korolkova wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello
>>>>> I have two questions:
>>>>> 1. Should we have Squid server before this test?
>>>>
>>>> It depends upon the analyses users might like to run. However,
>>>> it's unlikely that much will depend upon DB access as people will
>>>> likely run over MC rather than cosmics.
>>>>
>>>> However, the squid is a definite priority, so I would aim to get
>>>> that installed in the next week (it only takes a few hours) so
>>>> that you have it.
>>>>
>>>>> 2. Will this tests run on SL5 nodes only? I mean if we want to
>>>>> participate should we move to SL% or we can have SL4 WNs? (In
>>>>> Sheffield we can't afford to have both)
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't matter - there's nothing today which requires SL5
>>>> nodes. However, again we'd like to see the SL5 migration happen
>>>> soon, so that SL5 native built kits can start to become the
>>>> default. We gain 15-20% CPU with SL5 gcc4.3 code, so your site
>>>> works better for ATLAS on SL5.
>>>>
>>>> Both things are important, but squid is definitely faster to
>>>> deploy so a priori I would deploy that first.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Graeme
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> So we made our own computer out of macaroni pieces
>>>> And it did our thinking while we lived our lives
>>>
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>> So we made our own computer out of macaroni pieces
>> And it did our thinking while we lived our lives
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So we made our own computer out of macaroni pieces
And it did our thinking while we lived our lives
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