From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 22:47:13 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 976AC106567B for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:47:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F768FC27 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o2GMkwk7055613; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:46:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id y1zPNf4IYeIA; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:46:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (ezekiel.daleco.biz [66.76.92.18]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2GMkqHP055608; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:46:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4BA00A5C.1010802@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:46:52 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: google@alexus.org References: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com> <6ae50c2d1003161225t161e5918n32e52f4618231ee5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6ae50c2d1003161225t161e5918n32e52f4618231ee5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: andrew clarke , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 22:47:13 -0000 alexus wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke 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