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But can you play Doom on it?

Originally published by "dbarker" on 2007-11-28 10:50:00Z

A good day: when your client tells you the server for their new CMS is ready, and you see this in Task Manager.

That’s an 8-way box with 8GB of RAM. To run a single CMS. For a public high school.

Comment by "Dave" on 2007-11-28 16:42:00Z

>That's an 8-way box with 8GB of RAM. To run a single CMS. For a public high school. That's rich. Somebody's tax dollars hard at work. Please tell us what school district; perhaps there needs to be a little more accountability in setting the IT budget?

Comment by "Sheldon Kotyk" on 2007-11-28 17:04:00Z

Open up Notepad on it... watch available CPU and Memory disappear.

Comment by "Kyle Heon" on 2007-11-29 12:33:00Z

Are you sure it's a physical 8-way server and not either a dual quad core or quad dual core CPUs? Either way, that is certainly a beefy system. I just finished deploying a [pilot] site using Ektron that is setup on similar hardware (dedicated staging enivronment with seperate web and db servers and a production environment that consists of two load balanced web servers and a single db server).

Comment by "guy" on 2008-11-28 13:06:00Z

wow!