Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 11:04:22 -0800 (PST) From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) To: lithium@cia-g.com (Stephen Fisher) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Last revision?]: FreeBSD server considerations.. Message-ID: <m0tqlk6-000AnbC@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960224145304.524A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> from "Stephen Fisher" at Feb 24, 96 03:13:13 pm
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Mother board: AMD 586/133 CPU w/ MB $230. Either this "almost-pentium" > or an AMD/Intel 486DX4/133 with ASUS MB. It doesn't need to handle TOO > much growth yet so I believe the 486 will just have to do for now ;). Since I work for Intel, I can't recommend AMD chips :-) but I can recommend that whatever you get, you make sure it has a large memory capacity. As an ISP, that's going to be what you need the most. My 486 was only occasionally maxing out, but the 32Meg my motherboard supported was killing me. Still, I don't mind having a Pentium 133 now :-) > Hmm.. But they also have heard ASUS > MBs are the best. I've had no problems at all with my ASUS-PCI/I-P55TP4XE motherboard --- works great. > SCSI Drives: Two Conner or Quantum 1.08GB drives. The 2GB seemed to be > more than twice the price of the 1GB drives. $245/Each. I'm using 2G just for /home for 400-500 active users and 600 accounts (I don't remove expired accounts immediately, as they have a habit of suddenly finding the money and wanting them restored). 1G for the system disk will work if you don't have anything but kernel source online, but over all, you're going to find this cramped fairly quickly with log files, mail spool and the like. If you're putting web servers and ftp servers on this also, it's going to fill up almost instantly. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 453342 317162 99912 76% / /dev/sd1s1e 1438568 918558 404924 69% /usr/src /dev/sd0s1e 1514260 1367400 25718 98% /var /dev/sd2s1e 1986751 1674694 252454 87% /home I've got the full 2.1 release in /var, which is the main reason it's filled up, but also: 78586 /var/httpd 96464 /var/log 300882 /var/mail (yeah, looks like I need to go do some cleanup...) And don't forget swap --- you'll want at least 128M. That's probably enough though. > Memory: 16Meg. I will upgrade to 32Meg shortly, when needed. Just about > $400. At peak times, I have about 30+ users logged in, about half net and half dialup, and have 64Meg of RAM. It isn't too bad, but it really wants about 96Meg. I'm only running one web server and have nothing too much in ftp. > Any other recommendations or suggestions? I'll sleep on this and go > ahead and buy it if there are no visible problems with what I am buying. It's not possible to buy too much disk or memory... - -- Alan Batie ______ Freedom for me to be and do batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / only what *you* approve of +1 503 452-0960 \ / is no freedom at all. DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMTCysov4wNua7QglAQECUgP/U2C32W+P+BJVzVjIQHOvcfJfAkHejH78 hxgPsPJ7IXRlptTz81/3WJLqKEHg4pZzQNwSEBCH/lXp+knMK4jKN8xrHnQp2JRL bn103ZmNkhjgfsITdeuys9I2o8C/Y0BnmHz1pY+VZlx6g0C0JBh7TIj+2iDAG176 dBxwaQBGdBM= =lqc/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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