Bill Glidden wrote:
> I am wondering if there are any opinions on minimum processor speeds and/or
> ram amounts to run a decent linux installation, and if folks would be
> willing
> to share these opinions.
>
> I'm considering a Linux install for a friend's small retail establishment to
> function
> as a web/database server. Hardware cost is an issue.
>
> I'm just looking for anecdotal evidence: "I run RH 8.0 on a 450mhz P3 with
> 256mb, and
> it seems to work just fine", that kind of thing.
>
> Thanks.
>
00:23:41 up 11 days, 9:02, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
59 processes: 56 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1.9% user, 1.7% system, 96.4% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 77568K total, 74128K used, 3440K free, 29716K buffers
Swap: 176704K total, 6808K used, 169896K free, 10800K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
190 greg 20 1 14136 13M 336 R N 95.4 17.7 16302m setiathome
10365 greg 17 0 968 968 760 R 3.2 1.2 0:01 top
16MB RAM onboard and two 32MB sticks for 80 total.
root@edith:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 1.6G 999M 593M 63% /
/dev/sda2 55M 22M 33M 39% /dos
root@edith:~#
It's a 120mhz Pentium from when they didn't have numbers behind the word
Pentium.
root@edith:/home/greg# uname -a
Linux edith 2.4.18 #14 Mon Jan 20 02:44:29 EDT 2003 i586 unknown
root@edith:/home/greg#
It's Slackware with a pretty light amount of junk installed. It does
NOT have X. It's also headless. Fast PCs and good video cards are for
machines humans spend their time driving, not for crummy little
low-traffic servers chugging away at some measly little tasks.
There's no database, but it coughs up flat HTML on a RoadRunner
connection and schleps mail around (like this message) just fine. I
think this is probably minimal useable hardware, but the price for it
was minimal too.
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