From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 19:21:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF8C106566C for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:21:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4D388FC13 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:21:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7504 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2010 19:19:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.phoenix) (218.215.163.103) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 16 Mar 2010 19:19:45 -0000 Received: by smtp.phoenix (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 10C2A171A4; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:21:52 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:21:52 +1100 From: andrew clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com> References: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:21:54 -0000 On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (steve@ibctech.ca) wrote: > > The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III > > processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a headless 1 GHz Pentium III with 256 MB RAM. ... > Again... so long as the system won't change its overall process > objectives, go to the recent production release, but instead of > assigning 256M for /, throw 2G at it to be safe. 2 GB for / seems excessive to me. 1 GB should be plenty. I have 500 MB allocated for FreeBSD 7.2: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 496M 144M 312M 31% / Although, with a cheap PCI SATA controller card you should be able to use current model terabyte-sized hard drives on a Pentium III, so hard drive space is a bit academic. Regards Andrew