Recommendations for Bugzilla hardware

[David Miller]

Eddie Xie wrote:
> I maintain a customized version of Bugzilla for my organization.  We
> are upgrading some of our equipment, and one of the things being
> considered for upgrade is our Bugzilla server.  What sort of specs
> would be good for our new server?  Bugzilla is used a lot in our
> organization.  We have around 100 users and over 40,000 bugs in our
> database.  More bugs get added all the time.  We also seem to like
> generating graphs and reports.
> 
> We don't want to invest too much in a Bugzilla server if we could put
> that money and hardware elsewhere.  On the other hand, we don't want
> our users complaining that Bugzilla is slow, because it is used all
> the time.  I welcome any recommendations for this.

All depends on what hardware you have it running on now. :)

Our Bugzilla is on a 2 x 3.4 GHz HT Xeon box, with hardware SCSI RAID, 
and we use a replicated database for queries, the primary and replicated 
MySQL servers are on two separate boxes which are both 2 x 2.8 GHz with 
software RAID.  We've got about 120,000 total users (about 10,000 
active) and over 300,000 bugs.  We survived for a long time with much 
less-capable hardware (these machines are fairly new).

The database servers are both getting moved to new hardware soon (which 
will be equivalent hardware with the web server).

Our current performance bottlenecks are software-related though (mostly 
sending mail).  Changes to Bugzilla itself will be our next avenue for 
performance improvements.

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Dave Miller                                   http://www.justdave.net/
System Administrator, Mozilla Foundation       http://www.mozilla.org/
Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System  http://www.bugzilla.org/