Archive for February, 2009
iCal + iCal Server on Mac Xserve – It’s Alive!
Back in late November I tried to get iCal Server running on some older hardware and this is what happened…
I ran iCal Server + iCal in a test environment on a older Xserve–Dual G4 1GHz 2GB RAM Mac OS X Server 10.5.5–in this test environment with only a couple of test users and I noticed a significant increase in CPU activity due to iCal but it seemed that it wasn’t something the server couldn’t handle. A month later when I rolled out the service to 60+ users the server was brought to its knees. It ramped up to 100% CPU usage as more users logged in and by about 11AM that business day it ceased to be functional. Anyone trying to connect timed out before they received updates.
I have not been able to track down any specifics as far as something I can “fix” to prevent this problem as my iCal Server install is Apple default and other than running the CPU load at 100% there was not a single error reported/logged. I’m going to use brute force to work around the issue but I would like to find a better approach.
I am going to try to roll out this service again but hosted on a brand new Xserve 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 16GB RAM (I’m lucky in that I work for a bunch of lawyers).
No commentsNow two months later I think I have finally got it working…
