[OGo-Discuss] CMS Question [Was: New Website]

Adam Tauno Williams discuss@opengroupware.org
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:19:03 -0500


> > >>> Finally a simple install system that is standardized to the degree
> > >>> possible to eliminate most of the distro variables. Not known if
> > >>> the later is possible however.
> > >> I think installing the free Instant-OGo demo inside a VMware player
> > >> is quite reasonable [to avoid the distro variables]. Though it would
> > >> be useful to provide a VMware image directly (anyone cares to setup
> > >> one? ;-)
> > > Sure.  I've already got OGo in lots of VMs anyway, why not one  
> > > more. :)
> Ok, I've got the demo of InstantOGo ASE installed in VMware.  Where can
> I stick this rather largish file?
> I've never played with InstantOGo before;  very nice theme for the
> installer.  
> But 
> (1) keeping basically the default postgresql.conf file seems
> unreasonable.  Since the contacts and enterprises applications
> especially cause lots of sequential scans [substring searches don't use
> indexes] anyone with a reasonable amount of data is going to have pretty
> miserable performance as the tables will basically roll through the
> buffer pool, defeating the point of the buffer pool.
> (2) isn't the timezone in postgresql.con supposed to be set to GMT?

There isn't a compiler installed, so vmware-tools won't install.  I'll
try to install the required tools to get vmware-tools installed, and
then uninstall them.