Nick Holland wrote:
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote:
Hi All,
I just built a OpenBSD 3.7 samba file server for my home lan. It's a P3
500, 128mb RAM, with a 2 gig IDE HDD for the OS and two x Maxtor 200 GB
IDE drives for data.
whoa.
no where near enough RAM.
Trip over the power cord, you will end up swapping during fsck. That
will be most unpleasant. Assuming you have the swap available. (also
assuming you have big partitions)
128M of RAM is large for a home firewall. 200G is a large amount of
disk space, period. 2x200G is a huge amount of storage. Pair it up
with some real RAM. In fact, if you are after balance, you will want
about 1G of RAM, that won't be fun on that system, I suspect.
Nick,
the FAQ which you refer to mentions 1M per 1G of storage, so that's not
really 1G of RAM for this system, is it? or is there a reason I'm missing?
I am curious as I have a number of lower-end file-serving systems with
200G - 500G and usually 256M RAM and have never been bit by a fsck
slowdown, even rebuilding raidframe parity is tolerable. Granted I have
partitions usually smaller than 50G and a system partition smaller than
10G in most cases. Is this the difference?
mike
