From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 20 03:11:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E91171B07 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:06:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lnb@freebsdsystems.com) Received: from mx1.freebsdsystems.com (ns.freebsdsystems.com [69.90.68.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18ADB13C481 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:06:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lnb@freebsdsystems.com) Received: (qmail 72059 invoked by uid 89); 20 Feb 2007 03:06:39 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.2.0 ppid: 72052, pid: 72056, t: 0.1138s scanners: attach: 1.2.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:42/d:2597 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (lnb@freebsdsystems.com@216.235.8.115) by mx1.freebsdsystems.com with ESMTPA; 20 Feb 2007 03:06:39 -0000 Message-ID: <45DA65BB.8000302@freebsdsystems.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:06:35 -0500 From: Lanny Baron Organization: Freedom Technologies / FreeBSD Systems User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: satimis References: <9021341.post@talk.nabble.com> <200702190804.l1J84ngm012593@lurza.secnetix.de> <9041989.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <9041989.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About ideal RAM capacity X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:11:38 -0000 If you are going to run dns services. Run djbdns and you will be happy. I don't know why you would want such a small amount of memory though. Here is what you might expect (note the owner is bind but trust me, we don't use bind at all :) 77289 bind 2 0 2220K 1672K poll 8:10 0.00% 0.00% dnscache 77282 bind 2 0 1016K 428K sbwait 0:19 0.00% 0.00% tinydns Regards, ___________________________________________________ Lanny Baron Freedom Technologies Corporation Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 High Performance Servers and RAID Storage Systems http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM ___________________________________________________ satimis wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: >> satimis wrote: >> > I'm prepared to run FreeBSD-6.2 amd64 on an AMD Athlon64 x2 (dualcore) >> > 512Kx2 3800 box as server. What will be an ideal RAM capacity to be >> > installed. TIA >> >> It depends entirely on what you are planning to run on that >> machine. The kind of CPU is pretty much irrelevant. >> >> For example, if you're planning to run it as DNS server, >> router and/or packet filter, then about 128 to 256 MB will >> probably suffice. ;-) >> > Noted with tks. > > B.R. > satimis >