Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:46:52 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: google@alexus.org Cc: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine Message-ID: <4BA00A5C.1010802@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <6ae50c2d1003161225t161e5918n32e52f4618231ee5@mail.gmail.com> References: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com> <6ae50c2d1003161225t161e5918n32e52f4618231ee5@mail.gmail.com>
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alexus wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote: >> 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: > > i'd go w/ 8.0 worse case scenario 7.2 > and put more memory in that machine it's embarassing :) Bah, it's got more than an iPhone. :-D KDK
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