Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:35:16 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Art Mattox <artmattox@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: minimum requirements Message-ID: <20060929160516.GA3605@lakshmi.susmita.org> In-Reply-To: <20060929154826.GC657@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20060929011316.20646.qmail@web54103.mail.yahoo.com> <20060929154826.GC657@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:48:26AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run values > would be. So recommended minimums would be somewhat subjective > and depend on the intended use of the machine and the number > of ports and user accounts you might put on it. > > For a personal work station with only a few ports, but not a > stripped DNS server or something, I would recommend at least 512 MB > memory and 18 GB disk and 1.5 GHz CPU with at least 400 MHz frontside > bus. More and faster is nice. > A stripped router or DNS server might get by with 1/4 the memory > and 1 GB disk and a much slower CPU. > > A loaded desktop that included web server and web based utilities > such as database services, Email and list services, etc might do better > to start with 1 GB memory and 72 GB disk and 2 Ghz CPU and storage > would go up from there depending on the size of things you are > serving. > > ////jerry I am happily running FreeBSD 6.0 on 233 Mhz 128 MB RAM machine. It has given very good performance with very little cause for complaint. It is my workstation/desktop. I am not aware of any theoretical limit on hardware config for FreeBSD. Please remember to config a big enuf swap partition if ur RAM is low. regards, Girish
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