From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 15:15:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E04816A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:15:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net (ptb-relay01.plus.net [212.159.14.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225C543D68 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:15:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ian@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Cre24-000KMo-ON for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:15:36 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:15:32 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20050119194231.7259.qmail@web51004.mail.yahoo.com> <41EEE936.9070808@extacy.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <41EEE936.9070808@extacy.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501201515.32702.ian@codepad.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:15:40 -0000 On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:11, Tim wrote: > faisal gillani wrote: > >hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz Athalon > >with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle > >most of the time .. > >i also have some windows server on my network but > >thats a compulsory rather then choice . > > > > > > > >--- Anthony Atkielski > > > >wrote: > >>Jorn Argelo writes: > >> > >>JA> Either way, I never want another server OS > >>again. This is great. > >> > >>If I had to install a dozen more servers today, they > >>would all get > >>FreeBSD. It makes extremely good use of whatever > >>hardware you care to > >>give it. Indeed, FreeBSD can turn even junky old > >>PCs into productive > >>systems, since it is fast enough to do useful work > >>even with creaky old > >>hardware. Of course, this is presumably true with > >>most versions of UNIX > >>(those without a GUI to support, at least), but > >>since my experience is > >>with FreeBSD and it has been uniformly positive, > >>I'll just continue with > >>that. The thought of going back to a Windows server > >>now makes my teeth > >>chatter with terror--how awkward Windows servers > >>seem now! (Then again, > >>they seemed awkward even back when I used them > >>regularly--have you ever > >>tried to maintain a distant Windows server over a > >>dial-up line with > >>pcAnywhere?) > >> > >>-- > >>Anthony > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >*=BA=A4., =B8=B8,.=A4=BA*=A8=A8=A8*=A4 Allah-hu-Akber*=BA=A4., =B8=B8,.= =A4=BA*=A8=A8*=A4 > > > > Since we're posting specs and such, my P3 800MHz. w/ 256 RAM does all I > ask of it, with plenty of room to spare. > > FreeBSD Extacy.homeip.net 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #2: Sun Dec 19 > 04:59:10 EST 2004 Niy@Extacy.homeip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EXTACY=20 > i386 > > > > last pid: 77942; load averages: 0.05, 0.09, 0.08 up 2+17:49:55 > 17:52:00 > 107 processes: 2 running, 104 sleeping, 1 zombie > CPU states: 4.7% user, 0.0% nice, 4.3% system, 1.2% interrupt, 89.9% > idle > Mem: 89M Active, 49M Inact, 62M Wired, 9092K Cache, 34M Buf, 33M Free > Swap: 650M Total, 69M Used, 581M Free, 10% Inuse > > > Now, on this server I run: > PF & Nat, serving my entire internal LAN. It is my gateway from the DSL > to my LAN. > Nfs client and server. It's my file and back up server. > Apache2 W/ PHP and SSl, it's my web server for various projects, and > acts as a back up web server for a friends project. > MySql (For some database driven web projects, and for virtual domain > e-mail.) > DNS - Zone authoritave and caching. > DHCP - For the times when I need to add another machine to lan quickly. > SMTP, IMAP, POP (and their Secure equivalents) - Handles e-mail for a > few domains, probably ~5000 mails a day, with all the lists and groups > some of these people are on. (Myself included). > Spam filtering. > SSh > VNC over SSh. > X.org & enlightenment (So I can use synergy, since the server and my > workstation are right next to each other.) > A few eggdrop bots. > Top and PFTop are constantly running, so I can be constantly in awe of > just how well this thing runs. > A few other random and various daemons for monitoring and the like. > All on a generic + PF kernel. I never did any real kernel tuning. That's > next week's project. > > - Niy. I also have a P90 128MB ram as a home web server (Apache/PHP/MySQL/FTP) and= =20 that is mostly idle. I dos all the odds and ends that I want to continuousl= y. =2D-=20 /Xian "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failling, but in rising eve= ry=20 time we fall" Nelson Mandela