On 10/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">CIKALA Frederic ROSI/DOSI</b> <<a href="mailto:frederic.cikala@francetelecom.com">frederic.cikala@francetelecom.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Yes, i
know it is not specific enough ...</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">But
nobody here can tell me exactly the frequency of the logs that will be sent
:-/</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">One
thing is sure : it wont be 1 message per server per day, but something like
500 /server /days ...</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Do you
want to know something else ?</font></span></div></blockquote></div><br>
All that we can say is that you should make sure throughput to/from the
network and to/from disk is good, and that you have lots of CPU for log
analysis and possibly a GUI front end. At first glance memory seems to
be less of a concern for loghost apps but all the UNIXes I know of use
memory to cache I/O so maybe lots of memory is a good idea too.<br>
<br>
You're really on your own here, but any modern server-class machine is
probably a good start. If you grow beyond it you can set up a tiered
architecture or set up a counter-strike server on the old machine (god
I haven't played that for years, I just don't know what you kids are
playing these days).<br>