[Moodle] Ideal Server Specs for Moodle?

[Paul Williamson]

Hi Keith,

We started out with Moodle running on a Celeron 900/1gb sdram/40gb ide,
running RedHat 7.3. This was alright until a class of about 25 people were
clicking all over everything. The server struggled to render the php for
all the requests. I spent quite some time modifying apache settings with
no success. It was a good platform to begin testing on, however not
acceptable for class use as the whole class would be waiting 5 minutes per
click.

We setup a new machine to run moodle. P4 3.0 ghz / 1gb ddr / 2x120gb sata
hdd (not raid). We have no delays at all with 30 people on at once -
havent had a situation where more students have been on at a time yet. The
new server runs Gentoo Linux, which is a little less straight forward to
setup compared with Mandrake/Redhat, however has a similar feature to yum
or apt-get (emerge), which can save a lot of time. Packages are compiled
from source to directly suit your machines architecture.

1-2 GB of RAM I would say is necessary - you could get away with 512.
Processor on the other hand, anything over 2ghz should do the deal (i
would stay away from celerons/semprons) and a fast hdd (anything new).

Here is a page on the Moodle site about hardware
requirements/recommendations:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Performance

HTH

Paul Williamson
Network Administrator, Huntingtower School
http://www.huntingtower.vic.edu.au
paulw at huntingtower.vic.edu.au
Phone: 03 9831 9463
Mobile: 0433 167 247
Fax: 03 9888 1089




Keith Richardson said:
> Hi Moodlers one and all.
> Information request please...
> We are launching into Moodle
> Our server (a re-cycled old one for initial development prior to classes
> using it) is <<P3, 800MHz, single-processor, 128Mb RAM>>
> What should I be aiming at?
> Will simply upping RAM to, say, 1Gb be sufficient? Or should I invest
> considerably more?
> Ciao, Keith
> Keith Richardson
> Leibler Yavneh College
> Elsternwick Ph (03)9528 4911
> keithcr at fastmail.fm
>


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