From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 26 7:28:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8689D37B792 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: (qmail 3510 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Jun 2000 14:28:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Jun 2000 14:28:37 -0000 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:28:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Brad Knowles Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Compatibility Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: : : Ouch. That is quite a lot of money, but then a shell server is : usually the sort of machine that gets pounded on the worst, and in : the worst ways -- all sorts of bizarre things that users try, some of : which are actively trying to break security and exceed their : authorized level of access, others that are just curious about this : new thing they just heard about, some who are just plain clueless, : etc.... Yep tell me about it. ... : Once you have a full list of all potential costs, you can then : assign estimates to their values. Once you've done that, you can : then compare that total cost to the cost of the ECC RAM, and you can : figure out whether it really is worth it or not. I think that since this is a leasing deal, the price of ECC ram sounded alot more scary then it really is. When it comes down to monthly cost, it's rather nominal in my opinion. : But your shop may be entirely different. It is, but your practice is very sound. After all the discussion that has been going on here in private e-mail, I've decided to go for the ECC mem once I figured out that it wasn't really that bad when done with a lease which is how we were going to do the server anyways :) Thanks for your advice and suggestions. : -- : These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy : ====================================================================== : Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV : Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 : Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels : http://www.skynet.be || Belgium : * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5V2iUdMMtMcA1U5ARAiQiAKCTB/wpJ0jmodwxGxYKO7VTm+vm5ACfXnuS RAuTqcPHsyndRXnInRk8aX0= =KWO2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message