Slackware :: Choosing Hardware For A Test Setup?

Mar 17, 2010

I'm designing a multi-machined system that is supposed to resemble a failover redundant web&&databaseserver. I think I have the theory pretty well figured out (which means I'll run into a lot of unexpected problems )... but my concern is this:

I need some extra hardware, and I can buy three PII's for almost no money, or a couple of PIII's that cost apiece what the PII's cost in total. Is there a good reason to choose one over the other? One day in the distant future the setup will go live on x64 hardware. So I'm hoping to transport as much of the configuration of the test setup to the new setup. Would that be a concern somehow?

EDIT: Maybe I should explain, it does not really have to perform in any sense, but prove workload gets evenly distributed between two (or more) machines and that it can handle it if the plug gets pulled from a machine.

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Currently I have windows setup on a 3x 500gb Raid0 onboard array which itself has been flawless. After I shrunk my current partition size to give me about 25gb of free space I proceeded to setup Linux, and I was unable to perform the cfdisk portion for partitioning the array for Linux.

I tried using cfdisk:
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/dev/sdx (a1-a3,b1-b3)

I even attempted to locate with: cat proc/partition and tried using cfdisk on every device it located. It always said it was either an unknown partition table and should I start at zero, or bad partition. I was of course too concerned over my windows setup (which has almost 1tb of stuff I have not backed up) to go any further into the unknown.

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Phenom 9850
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4x1gb of 1066 kingston hyperX
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I found this test script:
Code:
<?php
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?>

Which I've named, testdb.php - when I run ./testdb.php from the CLI though, I get:
Code:
./testdb.php: line 2: ?php: No such file or directory
./testdb.php: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token '"dbname=template1"'
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I've seen a LOT of pages describing the internal code of the PHP file, but as a newb to this, I don't know how to execute this test. I've ran chmod 755 against the file to verify permissions, but this didnt effect the results. I've also done a "chmod +x testdb.php"
Code:
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Mar 31 2010 02:39:17)

I realized I wasn't doing this:
Code:
php testdb.php
but when I do, I get this error message now:
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It was especially useful in:

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3. setting up bookmarks in emacs
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Code:

And the message is successfully delivered to mailbox with mark "CLEAN" in maillog. But I cant see any attachment using

Code:

Where is my mistake?

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Code:

scripts/mysql_install_db --basedir=/home/mosty/mysql

the error is

Code:

Installing MySQL system tables...
100315 20:07:27 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/mosty.lower-test
100315 20:07:27 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/mosty.lower-test

[code]....

You can try to start the mysqld daemon with:

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Code:
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Couldn't find device with uuid 'JVirxL-lmqH-SUym-3lXG-MnXx-Qjk8-JZRha8'.
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Code:

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