From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 1 06:22:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4A9FD0 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:22:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michipili@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-x236.google.com (mail-ee0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4013:c00::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 732DF215F for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f54.google.com with SMTP id e53so3183478eek.13 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:22:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=l0gOPLgA5FDv/jiPCdbZJlbIUtsBEG/JOkcwdvfc1PA=; b=sZda70KKtGH/QP33wt70cUKZF94xRznjIRZ39cGM65i7S0u08MnKcS3cv8Q3Ejdf1m SmUFnnlgKcapMhBHKh40sWDaxRGCTtnaGOu4JdqV5av5yqH4F5566QNDu0lH1ItfG4yd jyiIKIjL5WI+Pd+byiyEzl1CYFSVFtSwnAIlbTbvPjgiSbrpFRFbgs1GoWf0s1i8kOrn /nxahGyRg3GsopScBDY8j1o9uPtt1EqALbogwWs8hExhVhtkoL+mMk8qNJi6WQVXByc/ vBFJDOa5zYk8IZYTP9qGHyzlyz/R/+UCziyowXxx+vwBdJ81oTbGCGfFxCLWJixBS1IQ hb0A== X-Received: by 10.15.67.131 with SMTP id u3mr43385283eex.34.1380608552807; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:22:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from llea.celt.neu (xdsl-89-0-185-2.netcologne.de. [89.0.185.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id h45sm9351224eeg.5.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <524A6A26.30903@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:22:30 +0200 From: Michael User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 SeaMonkey/2.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Soekris for a Trac server Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:22:34 -0000 I am planning to move a jail-hosted service to a physical device and would like to hear the advices of experts here. My service runs sshd, apache and trac (the ticket service) and I am considering getting one of the products by soekris. I know that some list users have some experience with these products so it would be very nice for me to ear if this kind of product is suitable for my project and if FreeBSD is doing well on these platforms. Also I am bit unsure about the setup I should pick: we are a hand of users for the service and I would like to know if a 64-MB Ram and a 166Mhz setup could do, or if I definitely should consider a faster CPU or more RAM. Given my actual jail based setup, is there an easy way to guess the required RAM — In the jail `top` reports a Size of 111M for the Python process, but I guess the interpreter is taking things easy when a lot of RAM is available, doesn't it? Last, are FreeBSD jails lightweight enough to run in such a constrained environment? It is not unlikely that the device evolves to run several other services (like a nfs) and I would appreciate to be able to confine services appropriately using jails. Thank you for your comments! Michael