From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 5 16:17:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C1E1065677 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:17:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44728FC21 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:17:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n55GGquP084078; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:16:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n55GGoJY084075; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:16:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:16:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Valentin Bud In-Reply-To: <139b44430906050557v4ce23a13r259535c3e839deb0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <139b44430906050557v4ce23a13r259535c3e839deb0@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Opinion request about a file server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:17:03 -0000 > I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 > CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. this is not old - very powerfull machine. > > I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar > configuration > and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server > using samba. what a problem? much more than needed. > > What i mainly try to achieve, talking in storage space, is 2 HDD of 1TB in > mirroring using gmirror(8) and 1 separate HDD of 500Gb. > > So do you think the system I've mentioned would handle the load? The server 10 times more power than needed. disks speed is the only limit