Hey Dave,
Thanks for getting back in touch with me.
We are running our galaxy instance on a vm... with
Centos (RHEL) 6.2, 2 vcpus, and 2gb vram, with a remote
postgresql prod server as our database instance.
Our first issue was trying to get it so we could load
sequence and larger files directly from an nfs mounted
directory on the server, without uploading via the web
(php vs large files problem.) We accomplished this via
the data libraries interface but it's still not very
user intuitive.
Our first demo user attempted to upload 3 large files
and actually filled up the / partition on the server as
galaxy was installed at /usr/local.
After scrapping and rebuilding that, we now have a
several hundred GB nfs partition, mounted and
/usr/local/galaxy is a symlink to a folder on this
volume.
The issue we are currently seeing is during an upload,
or even just linking files it runs for a while before
erroring out and saying there is no information on the
error. The file seems to be there and taking up the
correct amount of disk space but galaxy has a red bar.
The galaxy server instance is running back grounded in a
screen so we can always switch over and look at the
output it shows to standard out as errors happen, and it
seems that it has trouble changing permissions on the
files in the nfs directory, even though, root squash is
disabled, and the entire directory is 777 at the top
level and everything underneath is owned galaxy:galaxy.
AC