System Requirements
Software Requirements
We generally recommend the latest Java virtual machine implementation
available from your operating system vendor.
We specifically recommend the Java virtual machines listed for the operating systems below.
For these operating systems, make sure to read the detailed instructions on our Server Support pages.
Apple Mac OS Mac OS Runtime for Java
FreeBSD JDK for FreeBSD
IBM OS/2 Warp IBM OS/2 Warp Developer Kit, Java Edition
Linux JDK for Linux
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, & NT 4.0 Microsoft
SDK forJava 3.x or SUN JDK for Windows
Novell NetWare Novell JVMfor NetWare
Sun Solaris Java 2 SDK Production Release
Java support for operating systems not listed here can be found at:
Java Platform Ports
A shell account and ability (rights) to execute daemon processes on your server machine.
Hardware Requirements
586/32 MB RAM or better
To run the okChat server, all you need is a Java virtual machine and a Web server.
The okChat
server application runs on any Java Compatible"! operating system running a Java
virtual machine at version 1.1.7 or later.
Hardware
We recommend at least a system equivalent to the following for running
a okChat server on a Web site with relatively heavy traffic:
200 MHz Intel Pentium
128 MB of RAM
30 MB of disk space
You may want to have 256 MB of RAM if your Web site has very heavy traffic or if you plan to run multiple okChat
servers on the same machine.
The okChat product itself takes up less than 1 MB of disk space, but its log files can grow quite large with a
lot of chat connections.
With access logging enabled, you should allow 150 bytes to 300 bytes of disk space for every person entering your
okChat server.
Disk space of 30 MB will allow enough
space for your log files to record access for more than 100,000 people.
Network
Once your okChat server is up and running, you can expect the following
network usage shown for a okChat server handling 500 chat connections per day:
Total connections: 500 per day
Chat messages transferred: 6 megabytes per day
Average inbound bandwidth: 2.90 kilobits per second
Average outbound bandwidth: 4.52 kilobits per second
Maximum inbound bandwidth: 6.25 kilobits per second
Maximum outbound bandwidth: 10.35 kilobits per second
The bandwidth shown above includes the requirements for delivering advertisements from a remote ad server through
your server out to the banner areas of the okChat applet.
If you expect 1,000
or 10,000 chat connections per day, simply multiply the numbers above by 2 or
200 to arrive at an estimate of your network requirements.
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