I'm the network manager in my school. I set up a Gentoo box using VirtualBox
with 128M of RAM, to serve as the squid reverse proxy server and dns server
in my local campus network.
And it turns out:
{{{
gentoo-vm squid # uptime
22:49:48 up 7 days, 10:28, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.33, 0.45
gentoo-vm squid # free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 118 114 4 0 60 28
-/+ buffers/cache: 25 93
Swap: 512 7 505
}}}
If your demand is not critical, Gentoo can be quite lightweight :)
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Pandu Poluan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just for fun, not for boasting ;-)
>
> Out of curiosity, I pared down nearly everything from my Gentoo VMware
> Guest.
>
> `free -m` directly after booting + login:
>
> Mem:
> total 499
> used 28
> free 470
> shared 0
> buffers 1
> cached 12
>
> Granted, system is quite possibly unusable for serious purposes,
> although I can still login (console & ssh) and do `emerge --sync`
>
> But still, I'm amazed at how low Gentoo can go :-)
>
> Well done, Gentoo team!
>
> Rgds,
> --
> Pandu E Poluan
> ~ IT Optimizer ~
> Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
>
>
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Best Regards,
Einux
