From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 16:05:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9AE16A412 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA3543D77 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:05:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so972933wxd for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:05:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Sabw6f1ykky4vX9mWv2D+cIFQB/Mbn01czOWQryggEn+27/My1pE74DnQHCw7rj8WWJnaPR6DHi+hjR4M6G9xtrq5CcyGiQuhGaN14Ve/ZfAB9xFs+9zFxCPPjdFRN4bRBR9cqRhmLEVl0lYcHRRicrh4UZ969rPFn+bhNU14+c= Received: by 10.70.14.9 with SMTP id 9mr5360641wxn; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakshmi.susmita.org ( [59.92.56.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h16sm4217664wxd.2006.09.29.09.05.22; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lakshmi.susmita.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 863C423A93A; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:35:17 +0530 (IST) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:35:16 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <20060929160516.GA3605@lakshmi.susmita.org> References: <20060929011316.20646.qmail@web54103.mail.yahoo.com> <20060929154826.GC657@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060929154826.GC657@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Art Mattox Subject: Re: minimum requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:05:26 -0000 On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:48:26AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run values > would be. So recommended minimums would be somewhat subjective > and depend on the intended use of the machine and the number > of ports and user accounts you might put on it. > > For a personal work station with only a few ports, but not a > stripped DNS server or something, I would recommend at least 512 MB > memory and 18 GB disk and 1.5 GHz CPU with at least 400 MHz frontside > bus. More and faster is nice. > A stripped router or DNS server might get by with 1/4 the memory > and 1 GB disk and a much slower CPU. > > A loaded desktop that included web server and web based utilities > such as database services, Email and list services, etc might do better > to start with 1 GB memory and 72 GB disk and 2 Ghz CPU and storage > would go up from there depending on the size of things you are > serving. > > ////jerry I am happily running FreeBSD 6.0 on 233 Mhz 128 MB RAM machine. It has given very good performance with very little cause for complaint. It is my workstation/desktop. I am not aware of any theoretical limit on hardware config for FreeBSD. Please remember to config a big enuf swap partition if ur RAM is low. regards, Girish