John Francis wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:46:57PM -0400, Cory Waters wrote: >> Scott Loveless wrote: >>> Cory Waters wrote: >>> >>>> I've been spending some time this weekend reconfiguring an old computer >>>> to be a (supposedly) simple home server. the process is taking a lot >>>> longer than I'd hoped. That's mainly because the computer is pretty >>>> slow but also because I've never done this before and I'm a total noob. >>>> Interesting work but my back is hurting from these chairs... >>>> >>>> CW >>>> >>>> >>> I'm a perpetual noob when it comes to these things, but I have run Linux >>> off and on for the past 8 years or so. Just out of curiosity, what >>> distribution are you using? >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> I found a step-by step from a guy who built a headless file, FTP, P2P >> server using an old PC and the Xubuntu distribution. It turns out there >> are a lot of holes in his example. Some of that is because of my >> immense dearth of knowledge in this area and some of it is my newer >> version of the software. It's running, but the computer is REALLY >> slow...The CPU is averaging 100%. Don't know if something is eating up >> all the cycles or if the CPU is just that old. It's an old AMD of some >> sort. And honestly I don't know if it's really working as a server or >> not yet let alone controlling it from another location or whatever.. I >> have a lot of questions... But I'm off to Minn-e-so-ta for a couple days >> of training on the Yamaha PM5D so I can't really mess with it at the moment. >> >> CW >> the Linux lummox > > Something is eating the cycles. As long as you've got a halfway decent > CPU (an 800MHz pentium is more than sufficient) and 256MB of memory you > have more than enough power for a useful Linux system. > >
I would concur, I had a dual Pentium Pro 200 with 256Mb, It was quite happy serving my website, email, Unreal Tournament and file server for the home... never really topped more than 60% load. Drew. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
