On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes but if you run out of RAM while booting, much of the OS may be
> left unconfigured or partially configured. If you ran out of RAM while
> the system was already up and running, generally the things that would
> die wouldn't impact the ability of the system to filter and NAT.

That makes a lot of sense.

> The
> most common way to exhaust 256 MB is several active OpenVPN instances,
> which take up much more RAM for a brief period when they initially
> start up than they do under normal operating conditions. Packages the
> other common way.

I have two OpenVPN servers configured, but the only package I have
installed is the OpenVPN client export package.

I ordered a Soekris 6501 today, which has 1GB of RAM. I presume I'll
have a much better experience with that then I've had trying to
squeeze things into 256M.

Thanks for the reply, Chris. I appreciate it. Have a great 4th weekend.

-Erik
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