Recommendations please?

Recommendations please?

av Paul Zelenewicz -
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Hi All,

I am completely new to moodle and my head of school wants it installed.

Currently the only server I have available for this runs NetWare 6.5 SP3 and I'm somewhat weary of using setting this up, and using versions of PHP which are not supported officially by Novell, in our production environment.

Can someone please give me their expert opinion of which is the best platform (OS and HW specs) for moodle to run on an if it would require its own server to run comfortably (for approximately 100-150 students). Should I be worried about attempting to run a reliable moodle service on a server already hosting several network services (file,print,dhcp/dns,backup)?

Cheers smiler

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Re: Recommendations please?

av David Brooks -

Hi,

I definitely wouldn't be running anything on the same machine that handles my DNS database, nor back ups for that matter.

With that said, moodle has a larger footprint than the entire combined stack that is run to support it (@128MB script limit).  Memory, in fact, appears to be the one major consideration in running moodle.  MySQL also consumes its memory limit per thread at boot time, but this is managed more appropriately, utilizing copy-on-demand strategies.  I mention this because you want to be cognizant of the fact that the rest of the stack will consume resources as well.  PHP, of course, doesn't have the ability to manage memory on the same level as an actual programming language.  So while not probable, it is possible that PHP could consume memory up to (script_limit * apache_threads).

I've had good luck running moodle on a SunOS/Apache/MySQL/PHP stack with 2GB of RAM allocated per stack (we run four independent stacks on one Sun-Fire-V440).

Feel free to e-mail me directly if there are any fine-grained details you'd like.

Dave

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