Re: Very old hardware...

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

Dan Ritter wrote:

> I can point to several VMs that are running useful things on
> buster in just over 256MB of RAM -- 384 would provide a fair
> amount of headroom.
> 
> nginx and mail and DNS and NTP and so forth, all at once.
> 
> I note that EBay has lots of used 256 and 512MB DDR RAM available for
> nearly nothing -- $5 to $10, the shipping will be about the same --
> and so making this a usable system is probably within reach.

128 and 256MB on the Geode - 12 years in service
buster with sysvinit, postfix, openvpn and shorewall

# free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache  
available
Mem:         248996       14508        9096         168      225392     
225612
Swap:        503996           0      503996