Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 12:34:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Soekris for a Trac server Message-ID: <1380656055.18443.YahooMailNeo@web165001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <524A6A26.30903@gmail.com> References: <524A6A26.30903@gmail.com>
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________________________________ From: Michael <michipili@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:22 AM Subject: Soekris for a Trac server 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 _______________________________________________ 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" The way technology has moved on these days I would approach this from a completely different manner. Soekris makes some cool little boxes, but the last time I looked they still had I486 cpu's...today may be different, probably is. My point is that with computers so cheap these days why not just use a box, sans the drives and do a diskless boot from one of your FreeBSD servers...or better yet, setup another FreeBSD server using VM. It doesn't make sense to buy a box with VM technology so freely available. From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 1 19:55:10 2013 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86DBB265 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:55:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from leila.iecc.com (leila6.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:4c:6569:6c61]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29EF12503 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 99992 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2013 19:55:08 -0000 Received: from leila.iecc.com (64.57.183.34) by mail1.iecc.com with QMQP; 1 Oct 2013 19:55:08 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; hÚte:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; sR4b289c.xn--hew.k1309; i=johnl@user.iecc.com; bh=awKP6/4M3XBTqLIj8z63X8gAz8wFNOk/Zhn6HWd5YUA=; b=om7DjeOuEfKj39AQuRSEiGwhTEvNxHRP2/1tEcxo7WbI506QUqqN+hLpVaAXg/v+xLjKdZrvHPwlHdue6dObav+g/iPruqx8eH/heTIznMhN0nx/ER2yEoqV6Aeyl4w986nKHlGvJtffoM3LiUuMyCiwq2eR2Fl+44WPZU3KQhYA5bK6wkxA6ZTXoaEw+1YQQid9WTLOwC90wwBt5dovWm8ra1STqcykFFh22lyzqThaCSi3nl1S3/PHXwLLHxBP Date: 1 Oct 2013 19:54:46 -0000 Message-ID: <20131001195446.68658.qmail@joyce.lan> From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Soekris for a Trac server In-Reply-To: <1380656055.18443.YahooMailNeo@web165001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Organization: X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Cc: btillman99@yahoo.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:55:10 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dunno about Soekris, but I'm very happy with one of these mini-box systems that cost about $250 with a 60GB SSD disk: http://www.mini-box.com/MiniPC-Value-Systems I got a fan but it doesn't need it. It runs ordinary amd64 FreeBSD 9.1, installed from a thumb drive. It provides DNS, DHCP, and some other random services on my home network. It's also my backup server, running a four drive ZFS raid with an ESATA controller, so I bumped the RAM up to 4GB. My only complaint is that the PCI slot doesn't have a matching cutout on the back panel for for the ESATA adapter I have to use a riser card and leave the cover off, which looks stupid but looks fine. It's just like any other FreeBSD box do I don't see why it wouldn't run jails perfecty well. R's, John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlJLKJsACgkQkEiFRdeC/kWt/QCeKyA1GOHNxWXtx+oXSLEYocay L58An1PAV3zGKO9/9mvOhARkCkkgvExq =jLRV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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