Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:37:31 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Olivier Nicole" <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports Message-ID: <cb5206420609132337s7cc69211j8f62f97a58b9d326@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200609140205.k8E25bqR014918@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <200609120901.k8C91gXr004122@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <cb5206420609130404r39040a30j8dc1137aa246c8d2@mail.gmail.com> <200609140121.k8E1LwSh008156@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <4508B70E.60604@orchid.homeunix.org> <200609140205.k8E25bqR014918@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On 9/14/06, Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: > > I don't know why. I'm running DNS server on old Celeron 400Mhz with > > 96MB RAM just fine. Why do you think you need Xeon dual core for that? > > Of course I don't, and won't. > > I was just replying to the guy that told me that I am using archaic > hardware and that it makes building ruby slow. > > I do use a number of PIII servers (more than Xeon) and am very happy > with them. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to aggravate you in any way. PIII is not archaic, but it's certainly old. Nevertheless, we've got a number of PIII boxes in production, and even some older Cyrix ones in our lab - and are quite happy with them. Old hardware is just a half of the deadly recipe. The other half is old FreeBSD. Again, we've got one dual PIII box running FreeBSD 4.7 - under very heavy load with no issues. YMMV, but I would upgrade to 6.1 or 6.2 all the same.
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