[TriLUG] Specs for a good workstation

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

On Fri, 5 May 2017 21:09:56 -0400
vikram sai balaji ulaganathan via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> Was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a tower that can run
> at least 30 to 40 Ubuntu docker containers with a say lamp app?
> Thanks
> Vikram

If you mean regular Ubuntu with Unity (or later with Gnome), you could
get by with quite a bit less hardware by using Lubuntu (Ubuntu with
LXDE).

The lamp app also makes a difference: Does it spend most of its time
calculating public/private key pairs and writing three related
tables, each with 3 different indexes, or does it spend most of its
time waiting for the user to type several paragraphs into a multiline
input field?

And of course how often is the app hit? One hit per minute, or 100
hits per second?

If you were running a no-X Ubuntu getting hit once per minute and doing
no challenging calculations, I'd guess that any old COTS box with 32GB
of RAM would do it.
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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