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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


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