From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 21:07:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA21871 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA21851 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA09660; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 22:10:35 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 22:10:35 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199703080510.WAA09660@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: Christian Alfredsson CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: New Mailserver In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970306182641.0068d14c@nero.alingsas.se> References: <3.0.1.32.19970306182641.0068d14c@nero.alingsas.se> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com