LON-CAPA User Help: What hardware does LON-CAPA require?

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What hardware does LON-CAPA require?
    Hardware Recommendation
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    For full-time, classroom usage, an adequate LON-CAPA server
    should be/have:
    
    * a multiprocessor machine,
    * a CPU speed of 1 gigahertz,
    * a gigabyte of memory,
    * and at least 40 to 80 gigabytes of hard disk space.
    
    A lesser machine can be used for toying around with LON-CAPA
    (LON-CAPA will run for a single user on most any machine).
    
    LON-CAPA servers experience significant peaks of activity
    before a homework submission deadline.  To support these critical
    peaks of activity, it is strongly advised that LON-CAPA machines
    fit the above recommendation.
    
    If thousands of students start accessing the box as a web server...
    well you may want to consider more options.  The design of the LON-CAPA
    system is to naturally and transparently load-balance on multiple
    computer clusters.  So, a simple solution for running an entire
    college campus is to just have an adequate plurality of LON-CAPA
    servers rather than a single, particularly monstrous server.
    
    We like to think of high web server usage as "a good problem" though.. :)
    
    More Information on Hardware and System Administration
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    I find that LON-CAPA works nicely (for development purposes)
    on a Pentium II, 20 gigabytes of hard-disk space, 256M RAM,
    and 400MHz.  The consensus is though, that this may only
    be adequate for a class of a dozen students. 
    
    If you are making a serious investment, we suggest you
    join our mailing list by visiting
    http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin
    By posting to this mailing list, you can learn about what
    solutions have worked for others.
    
    We support Linux OS.  LON-CAPA has been shown to work on Debian,
    Mandrake, and RedHat.  Instructions are based on RedHat-centric
    installs.  Given the current level of new LON-CAPA feature requests
    and frequency of new software versions, we suggest that you stick
    with RedHat to reduce high-frequency system administration overhead.


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