On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:26:13AM -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > Hi. I've been thinking about building a SOHO NAS project using ZFS as > some others have suggested doing but I'm curious how lightweight I can make > Solaris (from a processor, memory, and install disk space) perspective and > still have decent performance for a home file server. If I took some time > to strip out all the unneeded parts of the system, leaving just enough to > run ZFS, a web console, Samba, and the basic kernel functions, what minimum > requirements do you think would be needed? >
If you're really really abusive, I mean, agrresive in your pruning :-) you can get the bytes for "running solaris" down to about 100 MB on disk. (this consists of doing a "core install", then pkgrm'ing stuff, and then beyond that, actually using "rm -r". but since it's a fileserver, you're probably not going to be short on disk space) you can also get the in-memory footprint down to about 64megs of RAM. this should be way under your requirements. It should be trivial to get a cheap "small" machine that has a 1ghz cpu with 128megs RAM, and that should be more than plenty for your needs. btw: running a "web console" + samba tends to spike your needs, though. 128 megs RAM will probably be minimal. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
