I'd make sure I had a machine with at least 256 meg of memory and more than 1 
hard-drive. The operations on the catalog such as expiration, etc. can 
generate a lot of I/O.  An Ultra-5 can probably keep up in a smaller 
environment I'd think, but not without the extra memory and probably scsi disk.



"Dave Pearson (EML)" said:

>Does anyone have any advice on the minimum specifcation for a Unix master serv
>er.
> 
>We hope to install a master server on a Sun platform for software release test
>ing. We have a DLT4700 tape stacker and
>a variety of Sun equipment to choose from. We would like to use an Ultra 5 wit
>h 64Mb RAM and a 9Gb disk. Is this
>going to be beefy enough?
> 
> 
>Dave Pearson
> 
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