My thought was to offer a quick list of suggestions that were customized to the box being installed on instead of having a predefined list of configurations that may not even be practical for the machine being installed on. I was not suggesting an optimizer but a quick way to get up an running with an engine that would make use of the machine it was installed on.

Lisha Lynn Mineral Cosmetics

----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Jamison <majp51@yahoo.com>
To: DL Redden <redden96@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:18:29 PM
Subject: Re: Out of Box Experience for Cheetah.



Perhaps, but wouldn't that open a Pandora's box? I mean what constitutes "reasonable" ?




----- Original Message ----
From: DL Redden <redden96@yahoo.com>
To: informix-list@iiug.org
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 7:29:20 PM
Subject: Re: Out of Box Experience for Cheetah.



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.


----- Original Message ----
From: Tool <tool@thetool.com>
To: informix-list@iiug.org
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 1:59:08 PM
Subject: Re: Out of Box Experience for Cheetah.




Obnoxio The Clown wrote:
> I'd go a step (or two) further:
>
> onconfig.sandbox - 1CPU, 512MB RAM, 5GB, 1 tempdbspace of 1GB
> onconfig.small - 2 CPU, 2GB RAM, 20GB, 2 temp spaces of 2.5GB
> onconfig.medium - 4 CPU, 4GB RAM, 100GB, 3 temp spaces of 5GB
> onconfig.large - 8 CPU, 8GB RAM, 250GB, 6 temp spaces of 10GB
>
> All should have a minimal BLOB / SmartBLOB space, say 1 GB each.
>
> (These are all discussion points, but I think their should be a number of
> semi-tuned options. ;o)
>
I'd have agree with OTC on these. I've got a beater Pentium III right now
using 1CPU, 512MB RAM, 100GB of IDE drive space available, easy to chop up. His
designation of sandbox would equal what I would call "tiny" compared to
current stuff on the market. I've also got x86_64 AMD boxes too, running
Linux and SATA drives.

The other thing that starts to get
rather sticky is, what are
you refering to as a CPU when you start talking about DualCore
and hyperthreading, both give the appearance of being 2 CPUs
per physical CPU. Guess this is a little out of scope but
interesting to consider for processor affinity, etc.

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