Re: Are these machines up to it?
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:09:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:39, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> >
> > 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this
> > as a firewall.
>
> Totally "yes". A 486DX2/66 with 16MB RAM is up to the task... With
> a 1GB disk, you will just have to be judicious about which packages
> you install.
>
> > 2: Also an 400MHz AMD K6-2, 6Gb disk and 80Mb ram. This is to be a
> > name server and an email server
>
> Again, absolutely "yes". DNS isn't stressful. Mail servers are
> only stressful when you are sending lots of email.
No kidding- I have one old 486-66MHz doing all of this -> mail, apache,
ftp, firewall, bind, dhcp server, pppoe, nfsd, etc. etc... It runs very good if you avoid
perl that is -- spamassassin is killing it! [only 20MB ram]. If no spamassssin
was running, it is quite usable for all this stuff all at once...
Cheers,
Adam
PS. Even if totally loaded and swapping spamc, I can get full 125kB/s throughput
from Internet and about 400-500kB/s from Apache over BNC. <lol>
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