Re: New boxes available for QA

On Apr 1, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Greg Smith (gsmith@gregsmith.com) wrote:
>>> =4 cores, >=8GB RAM, and >=8 disks with a usable write-caching  
>>> controller
>> in it.
>
> hrmmm.  So a DL385G2, dual-proc/dual-core with 16GB of ram and 8 SAS
> disks with a Smart Array P800 w/ 512MB of write cache would be  
> helpful?
>
> I've got quite a few such machines, along with larger DL585s.  I can't
> make one externally available immediately but I could set one up to do
> benchmark runs and to dump the results to a public site.  What I don't
> have atm is alot of time though, of course.  Are there scripts and
> whatnot to get such a set up going quickly?

Ditto here; I could possibly find one for running benchmarks for the  
community.

We're also working towards building our own performance lab and  
running our own benchmarks (that reflect our application workload);  
once that's up I could run benchmarks against other versions if that  
would be useful.
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