| Highwinds Software Product Documentation: Typhoon, Twister, Tornado, Hurricane, and Cyclone | ||
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Typhoon requires specific software and hardware. Before installing, ensure your system meets or exceeds the following requirements:
Supported Operating System
Solaris 2.5.1 (or greater) for Sparc processors OR
Solaris 2.5.1 x86 (or greater) for Intel processors OR
Linux with a 2.2.10 kernel (or greater) for Intel processors OR
Tru64 Unix for Alpha processors OR
FreeBSD for Intel processors
64MB of RAM and 256MB of Virtual Memory. More is recommended for large sites.
From 1GB-9TB of hard disk space for the software, databases, and spools for article storage
Choose a machine to run the system. Login as "root" and copy the compressed tar archive to that system.
As "root", create a user and group "news" on the system. If available, the UNIX useradd(1M) and groupadd(1M) commands can be used.
Become the "news" user and unpack the compressed tar archive into a local directory on your machine using the UNIX zcat(1) and tar(1) programs.
The system is now installed and ready for initial configuration. Read the Typhoon, Twister, and Tornado Back End Configuration Guide for assistance.
Install ALL vendor recommended patches! Recent vendor supplied fixes can greatly increase the performance and reliability of TCP/IP applications.
For Solaris:http://sunsolve.sun.com/
For Red Hat Linux: http://www.redhat.com/
For FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/
For IRIX: http://support.sgi.com/
Multiple Disk Drives To achieve maximum performance, we strongly recommend installing the software on a machine with multiple disk drives. It is easy to configure the system to evenly spread the load across whatever disk hardware you have available.
Irix Note Without up-to-date patches, many versions of Irix will be unable to run the software. To ensure proper operation, be sure you have installed the latest patch set and pay special attention to the POSIX, pthread, and XFS patch sets.
Linux Note Linux kernels usually ship with limits on the number of running processes and open file descriptors. For sites with more than 20-25 simultaneous readers, Highwinds Software recommends that these constants be increased.
To increase the maximum number of running processes, change the following kernel constant and recompile your kernel:
To adjust your filesystem limits, type the following as root:echo 4096 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max echo 12288 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max |
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