Re: [Sks-devel] new keyserver

[Michael Gurski]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:22:01AM +0100, Botka Istvan wrote:
> What is the resource requirements a keyserver. As I see the db is now 
> ~5.5G. It is not problem up to ~10G permament and ~20G temporary.

$ du -shc /var/lib/sks/*
5.7G    /var/lib/sks/DB
94M     /var/lib/sks/PTree
24M     /var/lib/sks/core
2.9G    /var/lib/sks/dump
12K     /var/lib/sks/www
8.6G    total

> But I don't know anything about the CPU and bandwith requirements. I have 
> to know some data about before I start the server.

I was running keyserver.gurski.org on a dual PII-400 for the longest
time.  If you hardware's that modest, I suggest going with the fast
build option for the DB unless you have a LOT of time on your hands.
Network bandwidth never seemed to be much.

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