Farid Hajji skrev: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:18:31 +0100 > Pontus Pihlgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi All. >> >> This is my first post to the list. I hope I'm not asking something >> already answered. >> >> I'm planning on buying a net5501 as Christmas gift for myself. I just >> can't decide whether I should go for the net5501-60 or the >> net5501-70. I think the processor is good enough in both versions for >> my purposes. But I'm not sure 256 MB of memory will be enough. I'm >> planning to run it as an access point and as a file server. Probably >> also bit torrent, maybe a small web server and as tftp server for net >> booting other machines. >> >> What is your experience, is 256 enough. Is it difficult to upgrade >> later? I'm not very handy with the soldering iron and I guess finding >> the memory chips might not be trivial. >> > > I'm using FreeBSD (6.3-PRE) on a net4801 (128 MB) running as > a ppp router with pf. Servers are lighttpd for many domains, > (Apache is too memory hungry), postfix, cyrus-imap, dhcpd, nfsd, > named, ntpd. There's still enough memory for a couple more (I've > used ctorrent on it too without problems, though I prefer to run > mldonkey on an internal machine and just relay torrent traffic > from and to it with pf). > > So if 128 MB are good enough for this, 256 MB would be more than > comfortable... unless you plan to run memory hungry stuff. > Thank you for you answer. I think I'll do some more research into the applications I intend to run. I was thinking of some database too, but maybe thats pushing the machine a bit to much.
I guess sqlite would work fine, but I think it is a bit to lightweight. > Regards, > -Farid. > Regards, Pontus. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
