Astaro minimum recommendation for V7 BETA installations:
Intel Pentium III 900 MHz, 256MB RAM, 10 GB hard disk drive and above.
Best performance results running on:
Dual Xeon or Athlon, 2GB RAM, 36 GB SCSI 15krpm hard disk drive and above.
If you are doing any content filtering (SMTP proxy, web proxy, Intrusion detection, etc) you will need more memory than the minimum.
To determine what is limiting performance, log into the machine via ssh and run `vmstat 1` while doing whatever you normally do when the machine is slow. Then look to see if you see any swap activity or if there is low CPU idle time to determine if it's your CPU or memory holding you back. If you see a lot of user time, you can run `top` to see what processes are using up CPU or memory (look for processes with the highest resident size).
On a system running a minimal config, the big memory users are the syslog-reporter programs, webadmin, confd/prpc apps and mysql.
so, based on Astaro minimum recommendation, every ASG110/120 will be not upgradable!
ASG110/120 has a Via 666 MHz with 256 MB RAM, so if we'll use http proxy with content inspection plus IPS the appliance will be unusable.
I posted this question because I have several ASG 110/120 installed with v6 and I'm worried after seen this performance...
...but all my ASG110/120 have 256MB RAM.
So, what is the official Astaro answer?
Will I be able to use V7 with the actual ASG hardware or I need to upgrade my appliances?
While I don't know what Astaro's official response will be, there certainly seeems to be some room to improve the memory and CPU footprint of Astaro. Historically, each major version seems to require substantially more CPU/memory than previous versions.
