Subject: Minimum system requirements

From: Chris Vaughn <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 06:04:18 -0700

Hello everyone.  I just joined the list, and I've been wondering what the
minimum system requirements are for running a LambdaMOO system.

I've looked through the many pieces of documentation, but I haven't been
able to find any such information.

Thanks,
Chris Vaughn

PS Are the LambdaCore User and Programmer Manuals in the contribs directory
at the FTP site still valid?  They seem kind of old.

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From: Judy Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 10:21:50 -0700

>at the FTP site still valid?  They seem kind of old.

There are probably still true statements in those documents.  I would
imagine that the number of false statements has gained a majority by
now.  I'm not sure if it's appropriate to delete them yet...

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 15:06:49 -0700

> Date:	Fri, 9 Apr 1993 06:04:18 -0700
> From:	Chris Vaughn <[email-masked]>
> 

That's hard to say, but I'll take a shot at it.  You need a UNIX system, either
BSD or SysV, with at least 5 meg each of virtual memory and disk.  You wouldn't
have much fun with such a system, though.  If you anticipate the place growing
substantially, you should start with at least 10 meg of virtual memory and 20
meg of disk.  Also, you'll be happiest with as much physical memory as you can
get.

So much of the requirements depend on how big your MOO gets and how many people
use it, that it's tough to give you some hard numbers.  LambdaMOO itself, by
far the largest MOO I'm aware of, runs on a Sun SPARCstation IPX with 128 meg
of physical memory, 1.4 gigabytes of disk, and maybe 400 meg of swap space
(virtual memory).  The current database file is about 70 megabytes long.

	Pavel/Haakon/Lambda