Chris,
You are probably correct in your situation. I don't know that there is any
right or wrong answer here. I was only giving the benefit of my own
experience. It would appear to all depend on your application and what kind
of bandwidth requirements your clients have and what bandwidth you have
access to.
I saw my transfer rates with large files decrease significantly with the
same configuration with less memory (under 40 mb) with my cable modem. Now,
it so happens right now I have a P90 with 40mb memory and a P133 with 16mb
memory both loaded with FreeBSD 4.1 under my desk right now. When I
download a test file from Roadrunner through the P90 I get about 230k/sec
with the P133 I get about 85-90k/sec. They both have the same ethernet
adapters. As for other content, http/smtp traffic etc., you are right, I
have can notice no difference. Single digit cpu utilization. The transfer
rate fall off is really noticable when more than one client is downloading
large files.
But, I have to add this is by far the best performance I have gotten out of
any operating systems to date. I had a P400 with 128mb of memory running NT
4.0 and the little 16mb machine blew it away with FreeBSD. I am a true
believer in FreeBSD.
Just my $.02,
Mike
mgruver@carolina.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Smith <chrissmith@mgci.com>
To: Mike Gruver <mgruver@carolina.rr.com>
Cc: Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie; FreeBSD 4.0 Installation
> > Let's start with the hardware... My experience with my own installation
is
> > on a Pentium 90 with a 2 Gb drive and 40 mb of memory. This is about
the
> > least I have seen FreeBSD run successfully with.
>
> I beg to differ. I am happily running a FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE natd/ipfw
> gateway on a 486DX2/66 with 16MB of RAM and an 800MB hard drive. That CPU
> is more than enough for natd and ipfw to contend with, I only get about 4%
> average usage on those processes. 16MB of RAM is the least I could
> comfortably run a console-only FreeBSD with, 8MB apparently is not enough
> anymore for most purposes (at least to install 4.2).
>
> Enjoy
>
> Chris Smith
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