Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Server Capacity

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Posted by David Stone (Member # 4846) on 03-15-2011, 01:47 AM:

Hi Everyone,

Is ther a % full level you shouldn't exceed on the DOREMI server. I currently have 7 features (incl Carmen 222G) plus ads/trailers for a 69% capacity.

Kind Regards,

David

Posted by Dave Macaulay (Member # 813) on 03-15-2011, 09:18 AM:

I don't think there's a maximum. You need enough space for new content of course, and there's no reason to keep content that you won't play again. Do you really run 7 features?

Posted by Jussi Siponen (Member # 5572) on 03-15-2011, 11:30 AM:

DOREMI servers are Linux boxes, right? If so, filling up the filesystem to the brim is not recommended - Linux gets quite grumpy when it wants to write something to disc and can't do it.

I'd leave at least 3-5 GB of storage space free at all times - which is something like less than 1% of the total, given the current HD capacities. So maybe having at least 1% free space at all times would be a good rule of thumb?

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 03-15-2011, 12:58 PM:

quote: Jussi Siponen
DOREMI servers are Linux boxes, right? If so, filling up the filesystem to the brim is not recommended - Linux gets quite grumpy when it wants to write something to disc and can't do it.

I've seen linux servers keep on running that literally had 0 bytes of disk space left and had no problem keeping on running when it tried writing to disk and found no space left.

Posted by David Stone (Member # 4846) on 03-15-2011, 07:55 PM:

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the info.

Dave, not usually but we have Gnomeo in 2D & 3D (sat/Sun), King's Speech, Black Swan, Carmen 3D (Sun), Conviction, True Grit.

Cheers,

David.

Posted by Anders Nordentoft-Madsen (Member # 3334) on 03-16-2011, 09:02 AM:

Doremi's are indeed Linux, but the system runs of a flash card, the HD's are only for content, so it should be no problem so fill it up completely.