It all depends on how busy your site is. Scoop's demands haven't changed much in terms of simply running the program. If I still had my P133 I could run Scoop on it just fine, as long as it was a small site. Scoop's hardware requirements increase as a function of activity, period. A big site with thousands of active users will need a lot more hardware than a little site that serves a dozen or so users, and that scales up mostly in RAM requirements. If your comment table database index ever gets so big it can't fit into RAM all at once, the database (and hence Scoop) falls flat on its face and can't cope with even two requests at the same time. This has happened, and it's why there's an "archive" option - to reduce the size of the comments table by off-loading a lot of it to a separate database. I'm afraid I don't have any specific numbers on hand for sites of various sizes, perhaps somebody else can chime in. -janra PS: sorry for missing your first attempt at sending this - list mail sometimes gets lost in the shuffle... On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:05:27 -0500, Steve Baetz wrote: > Folks, > > Here is an interesting question. The admin guide under the system > requirements section refers to the use of Pentium 133 or Dual PIII's in > terms of performance of a Scoop site. Now that its at least 6 years later > from whence this document was crafted, what are the stats of a Scoop site > for today's systems? > > With I/O being what it is, as well as FSB and CPU being a few orders of > magnitude greater than at the beginning of the decade, how would a single > CPU, or dual core CPU system running Xeon or Opteron processors with a > minimum of 1GB of ram perform today? > > Thanks. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Scoop-help mailing list > Scoop-help at lists.kuro5hin.org > http://lists.kuro5hin.org/mailman/listinfo/scoop-help