From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 11:11:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFFA37B423 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hacker@bolingbroke.com) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Switch-2.1.0/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id f3OIBne52479; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:11:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:11:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: David Caldwell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Am I thinking straight???? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Caldwell wrote: > Here is where my problem lies....I am planning on running this all off of a > 486 66MHz workstation I have with 40MB ram and a 512 SCSI drive. > I anticipate having to upgrade the drive soon, but will it do for now? > Am I going to have enough space to run this or do I need more? > Any suggestions? Any comments? anybody doing this on a machine this slow? The whole Internet was running off machines slower than that not all that many years ago. Scales are different today, of course, but you can definitely run the services on your machine. Just don't expect it to scale to millions of users, or terabytes of downloads. FWIW, I run FreeBSD 4.2 as a FAX/email server off a 40mhz 386 w/20MB RAM, and it works just great. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message