I need another box to run a twitter analysis. It is currently running on my 2008 Mac Pro in parallel to indigo, security spy and my general stuff
The twitter thing does not need a lot of cpu but a lot of memory ~ 100 python jobs each ~ 300+mbyte (querying twitter with 100 ids as they throttle the queries for each id) . OS X does a nice job compressing memory .. it works fine, but is at its limit, would like to go to 200 jobs, that would over stretch the box..
I am considering
(a) get a new mac pro, keep twitter + security spy on old Mac Pro and run indigo and my day to day stuff on the new Mac Pro or some other split
(b) get a linux box and move just twitter onto that box
(c) get a mac mini and put just indigo and security spy on that one and keep the mac pro for day to day stuff and twitter analysis. ( but that would not get me the new thing on my desk)
the new mac pro is now 2 years old and still sells for the same price .. I wanted to wait until they come out with a new version, but that seems to be a year out
any suggestions?
Karl