Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 11:00:34 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Mailserver Message-ID: <199703081800.LAA12282@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199703080609.WAA26510@meerkat.mole.org> References: <199703080609.WAA26510@meerkat.mole.org>
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M. R. Murphy writes:
> OK, I think you're nuts. I'd say a 486/33 with 16M RAM and the IDE
> as you describe would be fine. :-) :-)
>
> We get by with a hundred popper hits/minute or so on a P5/90, and
> it just idles along (load averages: 0.19, 0.21, 0.17).
Yeah, but you can't buy 486s anymore (at least in the US). I'd have
gone with a cheap PCI motherboard and a K5/75, since those are now
available for about $25 around here. Plus, you don't have to put the
"Intel Inside" warning sticker on your shiny new mailserver that way.
> Ah, you're not nuts; you're right on target. I like the
> 2 * 2 Gb harddisk on separate SCSI-cards, though :-)
Nice setup, but for a mailserver? Sheesh. Glad to see we both see the
light. ;^)
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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