Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 13 September 2000 at 08:55:01 -0600
> Are you really sure you want the misery of running a mail server on a
> 486 with only 8 Mb of RAM?
I ran one on a 386 with 8 Mb of RAM that also ran web. Worked fine,
except that kernel builds were a bit slow (this being back before
loadable modules in Linux, so I really had to build custom kernels).
I ran smail on it for a while, and then qmail quite early (might have
been as old as 0.72, don't remember for sure).
Obviously it won't handle very high email loads; but it works just
fine for a light load.
With lots of people having DSL and cable modems, it seems to me that
there's probably a renaissance in making 486-based servers going on
just now :-). I had one myself until recently -- my backup dns.
Finally replaced with something way over-built for the job that became
available (dual Pentium Pro, 192 meg ram).
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