On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:56:39AM -0700, Ihnen, David wrote:
> > Are you really sure you want the misery of running a mail server on a
> > 486 with only 8 Mb of RAM?
>
> 8 Megs of ram is kind of minimal and downright stingy when it comes down to
> it considering how cheap ram is, particularly for operating a linux kernel.
> Not many user programs can run at the same time.
But as you say...
> Given that it uses so little space, I think that assuming there is swap
> space defined and you're running a minimal kernel, you could probably run 10
> to 20 remote/local delivery sessions. Sure, it may not blast mail out like
Let's say it can handle just one delivery every 6 seconds*. That amounts to
8000+ deliveries per day. Vastly more than most small offices need to
do.
The only misery might be if he has people popping off of this box, even
then, most clients do this as a background activity so any delays are
not really noticeable. And, if it's a firewall mail system only, it will
amlost certainly be adequate for, say, 20 average users. (8000/20 = 400
messages per day).
In other words, if the box is reliable and available and his load
is less than that, then no problems.
Regards.
* And that's assuming it consumes all the resources of that system
during that delivery, in practise a single delivery is mostly latency
bound so my estimates of load are excessively conservative.
