From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 8 09:57:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA24143 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 09:57:26 -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 JAA24138 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 09:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA12282; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 11:00:34 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 11:00:34 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199703081800.LAA12282@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: "M.R.Murphy" CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Mailserver In-Reply-To: <199703080609.WAA26510@meerkat.mole.org> References: <199703080609.WAA26510@meerkat.mole.org> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com