On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:10:23PM -0500, Pedro Soria-Rodriguez wrote:
I have a 486/66 with 16 MB of RAM acting as a firewall/gateway/ftp server/web server/account server/file server at home. Sure it doesn't have huge amounts of users, but everything it does it does it pretty fast. It just doesn't have X running. It has 2 network cards and it connects to my cable modem on one side and to my internal (home) network on the other.
I do about the same at my home. It's about the same hardware (the CPU is actually a 486-upgrade-type chip, supposed to be a p75-esque), same RAM, 3GB hard drive, and an assortment of other random parts. Acts as: firewall/nat gateway, account server (nis), file server (nfs + smb), web proxy (squid), fake web server (perl script to serve out proxy.pac to internal web browsers), and internal name server (named/bind). It runs all of them well, except it's slow! Not because of the processor, but because of the RAM. Of the 16MB RAM, 12MB is used by squid to keep track of the proxy files/memory cache. Either the removal of the proxy or the addition or ram would make this thing jump through hoops. I want to add a real web server (apache w/ php) and MySQL, but am waiting to pick up some more RAM first. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes." - Zen Musings