From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 9 19:57:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4BDB37B400 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g1A3piN05545; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 22:51:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C65F066.7040304@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 23:00:38 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Kersten Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much memory for web server? References: <20020210021419.15443.qmail@web10008.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Kersten wrote: > I actually tested my up & download speed yesterday & > today at www.pcpitstop.com...my speeds today were: > download: 1369 Kb/s > upload: 931 Kb/s > > and they were similar yesterday...so the speed should > be alright, shouldn't it? As long as that's all the faster it needs to go, yes. >>>I use X-windows frequently and am wondering how >>> >>much >> >>>it affects the web/ftp serving performance. >>> >>X-windows by itself is not going to hurt your >>http/ftp >>performance on a machine like that. What are you >>using >>within x-windows? >> > > I primarily run office applications (StarOffice pretty > much), web browsers, a chat program every now and > then, music players....nothing too intensive...I am > trying to learn how to set up FreeBSD as a good > desktop environment...I haven't really learned how to > push it to its limits in any aspect of computing yet > because of my lack of knowledge on the OS & the new > programs I think, generally, that the attitude is that running x-windows on a webserver is a waste of CPU cycles/RAM. However, if top performance isn't an issue, and you want to use the machine for other purposes as well - in general, for the purpose that you describe, I doubt you'll have any problems. >>That machine should be able to >>serve >>gobs of requests per hour. It's probably capable of >>serving >>more data than your cable connection can handle. >> > > I just built it last fall, it is a "little much" for > what I really need..but, well, I'm kind of > compulsive... Heavens no, you can never have too much computer power! >>>I have another box laying around >>>that is a P-166 w/ 48 mb of memory. I am thinking >>>about setting this up with FreeBSD 4.5 as a >>> >>firewal >> >>>and print server (only serving 2 other computers), >>>would this efficiently work as a web/ftp server >>> >>box >> >>>also, or is it too slow? >>> >>It's all reletive. How much data are you expectin >>it to >>handle? Generally, a machine of that calaber can >>handle >>a slow web site and ftp site with no problem. >> > > I am going to serve a personal page that is basically > going to be a test site for me to increase my > knowledge on FreeBSD. I will probably be visiting more > than anyone just to see if it is working the way I > want...if that gives you any idea how "busy" it will > be... I think you'll be surprise as to how well that old machine will do what you want. >>>What kind of hardware is >>>required for serving a personal website...with >>> >>really >> >>>not a lot of traffic? Any advice is appreciated... >>> >>"With really not a lot of traffic", that machine is >>probably >>so overpowered it's ridiculous. The p133 could >>probably do >>the job easily. >>Watch top(1) and/or systat(1) while the machine is >>running and >>see how hard it's working. I think you'll find its >>idle most >>of the time. >> > > I need to get the OS installed on the machine...I am > just wondering if it will be able to handle everything > (firewalling & web / ftp / print server)...it sounds > like it should be able to, huh? Thanks for the > response... Good luck, you'll probably learn a lot of interesting things by doing this. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message