Is this reasonable ?

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Tue Jun 26 09:36:14 UTC 2007


On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Ollivier Robert wrote:

OR> My current mail/uucp/web/router/firewall machine is a D820-based machinie
OR> (dual core pentium at 2.8 GHz) with two gmirror-ed 160 GB SATA drives
OR> running a somewhat oldish 6.1-STABLE.  It has only 512 MB of memory and
OR> perform rather well.
OR> 
OR> With all the very nice point of ZFS, would it be reasonable to run
OR> 7.0/amd64 on it?  The point being moving to amd64 as ZFS is more optimized
OR> for this arhitecture.  Should I try to get more memory for it (it is a Dell
OR> 9150 machine)? or could it run as is?

Stuff it with RAM if you can - 2G seems the most reasonable with 
price/performance ratio.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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