From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 23:38:09 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 9A9A7106564A for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:38:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordofhyphens@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f211.google.com (mail-gx0-f211.google.com [209.85.217.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0CC8FC0A for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so223686gxk.13 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:38:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=i89xXVlW/392N+Odna6cjTR6dbdP0xhZr8bdijfuf5I=; b=lmqkvcmMeYj+N/M1pScHotNx3WCO8Ip5/mHkVvJzphoFuTKyycr0TYWx8GH9rkxqHJ H68zZua5i/BobO4c/qOZ5hPycGbNkjbIojKd5NwBsFCX0osEO00Urc9xeolGfhQuV3wb CkCOcyxk8Uqk5uOAejaVzzqbDgdqiHsVrSUF8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ccVnC59ivuSkXZte5spc4B1l2cPcfYf7Dkrsw2kkQoMsMysaY93xAfMbzFTNh/RGKm HRipj4qd1CAn3KMZwn1HAy3+PtMe6YRa4gYGc0C6O3fb/PQPJ+iaDwJUNwd8lnf9M0Qa Gv8vtvBMegaPZPPzlDz5mp6LRmNzr4GOlRBbs= Received: by 10.101.154.17 with SMTP id g17mr104124ano.48.1268782688261; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.248] (173-24-125-169.client.mchsi.com [173.24.125.169]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm5785576iwn.2.2010.03.16.16.38.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BA0165D.8010301@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:38:05 -0500 From: Joseph Lenox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com> <6ae50c2d1003161225t161e5918n32e52f4618231ee5@mail.gmail.com> <4BA00A5C.1010802@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4BA00A5C.1010802@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 23:38:09 -0000 I had my fileserver running on a P3-1Ghz with Freebsd-8 for a good long while. I eventually replaced it with a dual-socket opteron board I got on ebay for something like $50 after shipping (with processors, seller was getting rid of 600 or so blades). I'm pretty sure the auction is still up if anyone cares. The board runs great with FBSD 8.0-Release amd64 On 3/16/2010 5:46 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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"