On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:11, Tim wrote: > faisal gillani wrote: > >hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz Athalon > >with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle > >most of the time .. > >i also have some windows server on my network but > >thats a compulsory rather then choice . > > > > > > > >--- Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >wrote: > >>Jorn Argelo writes: > >> > >>JA> Either way, I never want another server OS > >>again. This is great. > >> > >>If I had to install a dozen more servers today, they > >>would all get > >>FreeBSD. It makes extremely good use of whatever > >>hardware you care to > >>give it. Indeed, FreeBSD can turn even junky old > >>PCs into productive > >>systems, since it is fast enough to do useful work > >>even with creaky old > >>hardware. Of course, this is presumably true with > >>most versions of UNIX > >>(those without a GUI to support, at least), but > >>since my experience is > >>with FreeBSD and it has been uniformly positive, > >>I'll just continue with > >>that. The thought of going back to a Windows server > >>now makes my teeth > >>chatter with terror--how awkward Windows servers > >>seem now! (Then again, > >>they seemed awkward even back when I used them > >>regularly--have you ever > >>tried to maintain a distant Windows server over a > >>dial-up line with > >>pcAnywhere?) > >> > >>-- > >>Anthony > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > >===== > >*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ > > <snip> > > Since we're posting specs and such, my P3 800MHz. w/ 256 RAM does all I > ask of it, with plenty of room to spare. > > FreeBSD Extacy.homeip.net 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #2: Sun Dec 19 > 04:59:10 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EXTACY > i386 > > > > last pid: 77942; load averages: 0.05, 0.09, 0.08 up 2+17:49:55 > 17:52:00 > 107 processes: 2 running, 104 sleeping, 1 zombie > CPU states: 4.7% user, 0.0% nice, 4.3% system, 1.2% interrupt, 89.9% > idle > Mem: 89M Active, 49M Inact, 62M Wired, 9092K Cache, 34M Buf, 33M Free > Swap: 650M Total, 69M Used, 581M Free, 10% Inuse > > > Now, on this server I run: > PF & Nat, serving my entire internal LAN. It is my gateway from the DSL > to my LAN. > Nfs client and server. It's my file and back up server. > Apache2 W/ PHP and SSl, it's my web server for various projects, and > acts as a back up web server for a friends project. > MySql (For some database driven web projects, and for virtual domain > e-mail.) > DNS - Zone authoritave and caching. > DHCP - For the times when I need to add another machine to lan quickly. > SMTP, IMAP, POP (and their Secure equivalents) - Handles e-mail for a > few domains, probably ~5000 mails a day, with all the lists and groups > some of these people are on. (Myself included). > Spam filtering. > SSh > VNC over SSh. > X.org & enlightenment (So I can use synergy, since the server and my > workstation are right next to each other.) > A few eggdrop bots. > Top and PFTop are constantly running, so I can be constantly in awe of > just how well this thing runs. > A few other random and various daemons for monitoring and the like. > All on a generic + PF kernel. I never did any real kernel tuning. That's > next week's project. > > - Niy. > > <snip>
My Athlon 3200 is always running seventeen or bust (www.seventeenorbust.com) so the load average is usually 1. Its at a low priority tho so there's not really a performance drop -- /Xian "Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: 'Sir, you're drunk.' Winston Churchill to Lady Astor: 'Madam you're ugly but I'll be sober in the morning.'" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
