From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 16:29:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3681816A403 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:29:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D4443CA0 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:27:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 1460 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2006 16:28:59 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 Dec 2006 16:28:59 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 4A2CF2842F; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:28:58 -0500 (EST) To: Nicolas Blais References: <200612111947.34413.nb_root@videotron.ca> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:28:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200612111947.34413.nb_root@videotron.ca> (Nicolas Blais's message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:47:21 -0500") Message-ID: <44slfl3wol.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD FAMP on a mini-itx/embedded platform 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, 12 Dec 2006 16:29:00 -0000 Nicolas Blais writes: > I'm looking to make a light FreeBSD-Apache-MySQL-PHP system out of a VIA EN > 5000 system. It would replace my home file/web server which currently runs > 24h/7d with a silent and energy-wise bundle. I did something similar ( http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/photos/2006/05.May/Epia/thumbnails.html ) and I'm quite happy with it. The one you are looking at it twice as fast and pulls about 40% less peak power. [It is *very* hard to get comparison numbers for power consumed by machines at idle, but take it for granted that it will be a fair amount less than peak.] > I would also like to take advange of the C7 processor's Padlock feature (SSL > encryption). I believe FreeBSD supports it? Yes. It may not be particularly speedy (at least, on my C3), but it keeps up with (at least) multiple megabits of traffic per second. Perhaps more important, it offloads the CPU to do other things at the same time. > I'm not looking for 3D performance or the such for this file server, but I > would expect it to atleast keep up with the current server network-wise. Are > my expectations unfounded? I don't think so. Obviously, it depends on how sophisticated your web applications are, but in general, I would expect it to perform better than *any* PC-class machine did four years ago. > sidenote: This would be my 7th BSD machine in the house (and this is not > counting my Vmware guests!) :) I thought you were *replacing* an old machine with it?