Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 22:10:35 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Christian Alfredsson <christian.alfredsson@alingsas.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: New Mailserver Message-ID: <199703080510.WAA09660@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970306182641.0068d14c@nero.alingsas.se> References: <3.0.1.32.19970306182641.0068d14c@nero.alingsas.se>
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Christian Alfredsson writes:
> I'm the mailmaster of nero.alingsas.se. Today we have a HP Vectra 133Mhz
> with 64MB memory and 4Gb harddisk. We only use it for popper and it's not
> possible to telnet and so on to it... We have had a little problem with the
> hardware so we want't to change the server. I have thought of the following
> configuration for the new server
>
> Pentium Pro 200 Mhx
> 128 MB Ram
> 2 * 2 Gb harddisk on separate SCSI-cards
Good god, you must be kidding. For a mailserver? Keep in mind that all
your system needs to be able to do is keep up with the ethernet card
running at 1 megabyte/sec. Unless you're using a 100Base-TX network,
any old Pentium 100 with 16 or 32 Megs RAM and an IDE drive big enough
to hold a basic installation of FreeBSD (say 200 megs) plus your mail
spool will probably handle the load just fine.
Anyone here in FreeBSD land think I'm nuts?
Let's hear the opposition. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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