About ideal RAM capacity

[ANdrei]

In a company I provide solutions for, for an office with 10 PC's in the
network I successfully use a Pentium-120 with 16MB of RAM for the last 5-6
years without any interruption :) And those people do web-based
applications, doing quite a lot of up/downloads and alike. This server is
router/packet filter/DNS and runs about 0.10-0.15 load all the time... But
that be said, it doesn't have many DNS requests, as well as little disk
activity on the server itself due to other jobs than routing/NAT/firewall.
And as it runs well, the owner doesn't want to change it, though anything
you can find for free on the streets would already be an upgrade to this
computer :)

So, as mentioned, amount of RAM depends on what you want to do. But FreeBSD
is a wonderchild here in my opinion, so you might well need less than you
expect, if you're not yet very familiar with FreeBSD.


good luck,
ANdrei
http://students.oamk.fi/~t6ruan00/
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "satimis" <satimis at yahoo.com>
To: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: About ideal RAM capacity


>
>
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
>>
>> satimis <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>  > I'm prepared to run FreeBSD-6.2 amd64 on an AMD Athlon64 x2 (dualcore)
>>  > 512Kx2 3800 box as server.  What will be an ideal RAM capacity to be
>>  > installed.  TIA
>>
>> It depends entirely on what you are planning to run on that
>> machine.  The kind of CPU is pretty much irrelevant.
>>
>> For example, if you're planning to run it as DNS server,
>> router and/or packet filter, then about 128 to 256 MB will
>> probably suffice.  ;-)
>>
> Noted with tks.
>
> B.R.
> satimis
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