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Date:      Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:46:52 -0500
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        google@alexus.org
Cc:        andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine
Message-ID:  <4BA00A5C.1010802@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <6ae50c2d1003161225t161e5918n32e52f4618231ee5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx>	<4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com> <6ae50c2d1003161225t161e5918n32e52f4618231ee5@mail.gmail.com>

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alexus wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote:
>> On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (steve@ibctech.ca) wrote:
>>
>>>> The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III
>>>> processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB.
>> I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a headless 1 GHz Pentium III with 256 MB RAM.
>> ...
>>
>>> Again... so long as the system won't change its overall process
>>> objectives, go to the recent production release, but instead of
>>> assigning 256M for /, throw 2G at it to be safe.
>> 2 GB for / seems excessive to me.  1 GB should be plenty.  I have 500
>> MB allocated for FreeBSD 7.2:
> 
> i'd go w/ 8.0 worse case scenario 7.2
> and put more memory in that machine it's embarassing :)

Bah, it's got more than an iPhone. :-D

KDK





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