> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Gerd wrote about, Re: New AX.25 and newest kernel 2.2.14:
>first test results:
> >
> > The information comes from several german computer magazines stating that you
> > need at least 64 MB physical RAM in order to get a benefit of the new
> > kernel's memory management features.
They must still be in Windows mode - that sounds like a W98/2000 hardware
req.
> If it works why break it, at our local radio club we have an old 386/33/sx
> with 6 megs of ram running a 2.3.x kernel. The machine itself does not do
> much work, it serves as awork stn, during contests, it runs multiple logins
> and runs an ax25/bpq/netrom combination well via ethernet.
At the salt mine, I run several 486DX33's. They all have 8 or 16 MB and
provide web, dhcp, dns, email or samba services to our intranet. We also
have a P5/120 with 32MB being the main samba fileserver and a 486DX100
running Novell 3.12. None of these machines break into a sweat (Load
rarely > 0.3) serving a network of 16 or so pentiums running W95/NT
running a largish database app. The Linux kernels are all around 2.0.36
or 2.2.5. I agree, if it ain't broke!
Incidentally, the network server here (at home) is a 486DX100/20MB running
1.2.13. It hasn't been (seriously) touched since April 1996 and runs
virtually everything we require on the home network. It is due to be
replaced soonish due to the moving parts beginning to wear out, apart
from power cuts, it has only been powered down twice since 1996 - to
add/remove hardware.
None of the server machines run X.
Geoff
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