[COLUG] February Meeting solicitations

[Greg Sidelinger]

> Joe Whipple wrote:
>> The most used resources in order I have found are:
>> RAM
>> Drive Space
>> CPU
>>
>> I would plan any servers with this in consideration, as VM's eat ram
>> like candy. I have had no issues with CPU usage, but most of my servers
>> are dual 3.8Ghz Xeons with dual cores :)
>
> Our current host machine is a dual-core AMD Opteron 2.4 GHz with 2 GB
> physical RAM.  I've got a base Debian Etch install running VMWare server.
>

As a note for anyone running VMWare on a Dual CPU system. Don't enabled
virtual SMP because it will make the VM slower. This is because the host
can't execute any commands until it has two CPUs free at the same time.
The rule of thumb is to have twice the CPUs on the host has the guest.