Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:47:57 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Suggested minimun memory for light use 100Gb filesystem? Message-ID: <20000809104757.A12045@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200008090909.FAA04521@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from "Francisco Reyes" on Wed Aug 9 05:19:10 GMT 2000 References: <200008090909.FAA04521@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
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In the last episode (Aug 09), Francisco Reyes said: > Any recommendations on a minimun amount of memory for a machine which > will hold 100GB of data. The computer will be used as an archive/data > repository. I expect 0 to 3 users concurrently. CPU will be a Pentium > II 450Mhz (or 400Mhz can't remember at the moment). Disks will be 4 > IDE on an 3Ware 4 port controller. 2 disks on RAID 1, 2 on RAID 0. 64MB should be fine, 128MB is probably better. I've got a 200gb volume used as a staging area for dumping files to DLT, and the machine has 128MB of RAM. As long as you're just doing sequential I/O, the amount of RAM you have isn't that important. (dan@tape1) /mnt/emssrv5/home/dan> free Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 49583 30737 14880 67% / /dev/da0s1f 3615780 812844 2513674 24% /usr /dev/da0s1e 19815 3918 14312 21% /var /dev/vinum/raid 203709984 170671272 16741914 91% /u01 -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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