takCoder wrote: > > besides, would someone tell me about system requirements of EFW ?? > > thanks in advance :-) > > >
Download the current memtest86+ iso or floppy image and create a bootable disk. Boot the PC that you want to use as a firewall, and look at the numbers in the upper left-hand corner. It lists the speed that your PC is able to access its cpu cache and ram. It's listed in MegaBytes per second (MB/s) 'Memory' means your ram. If your memory is running at 300 MB/s or less, it's going to be slow but might be ok for 1 or 2 users. 600 to 800 MB/s is better. 1000 or more is nice. Current modern desktop computers go 3000 MB/s or more. As far as the amount of ram that the firewall should have, enable the services you want and look in Status>System Graphs in your efw GUI. If it shows its running out or has very little of Free memory (in green), then add more ram. If you turned off most of the filter and scanner services, you could get by with 256 Megs. Without enough free memory, they start using the swap area on the hard drive which slows things down and works the equipment harder. I have efw 2.2 running at 6 different sites, each one has from 1 to 30 users. I found that if I disable the content filter and anti-spam service, and but leave the the virus scanner and other services running (DNS, DHCP, NTP, etc) then 512 Megs of ram is perfect. By the way, its a good idea to let memtest86+ run through one or two passes to test your ram.... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Services-Not-Running---tp10005572p25214370.html Sent from the efw-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
