Difference between revisions of "SUNScholar/Install Ubuntu/S01"

Revision as of 16:38, 5 August 2012

We use the LTS versions of Ubuntu for our servers. For more information about the Ubuntu LTS server go to:

http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Enterprise_Server_Management

The server installation CD can be downloaded from:

ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/iso-images/ubuntulinux/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.4-server-amd64.iso

Burn the above ISO image to a blank CD. Do not copy it as data, it MUST be burned as an ISO image !

If you have problems burning your own CD, then please ask your IT support people to help you.

At the moment we use a DELL R710 server. With the following specifications:

The following partition scheme is reccomended.

/	ROOT partition, where all the system software is installed	10GB Minimum - 20GB preferred
n/a	SWAP partition	2x installed RAM
/var	VAR partition, where all the log files and database files are installed	10GB Minimum - 20GB preferred. This depends on how big your database index files get.
/home	HOME partition, where all the DSpace software files and bitstreams are stored	All the rest of the total disk capacity.

All our tweaks and optimization seem to be working.

Looks like we have enough disk space for the next 3yrs at least at our current rate of submissions.

We have more than enough compute muscle.

Our memory usage stabilised when we stopped using the JSPUI and started using "authbind" for Tomcat.

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