On 10/4/05, CIKALA Frederic ROSI/DOSI <frederic.cikala@francetelecom.com> wrote:
Yes, i know it is not specific enough ... But nobody here can tell me exactly the frequency of the logs that will be sent :-/ One thing is sure : it wont be 1 message per server per day, but something like 500 /server /days ... Do you want to know something else ?
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. 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).