On 6/24/2010 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?
On a 5501 with a single PATA laptop drive, I'm current running the gateway machine and infrastructure support: OpenBSD, NAT'ing firewall for a 2 MBit symmetric DSL link, router for 3 different internal networks (external wired, internal wired DMZ, internal wired user, and a wireless AP for internal), DNS/DHCP/NTP/lpd server, squid proxy for web traffic, and Apache for some internal static web pages (including media files, the server has access to dozens of GB, but doesn't run scripts, nor high traffic). Runs excellently. It also runs an NFS server that only sees occasional use, and isn't blazingly fast (can not saturate the 100 base T link), but so far I have not cared enough to figure out where the bottleneck is. The next step wil be: upgrade the machine to be a 1TB file server; replace the 100GB PATA laptop disk with a SATA controller in the PCI slot and put two 1TB SATA disks on it (with software mirroring), boot from a CF card, and set up a NFS and Samba server; it will have to be able to saturate the 100BT link. It's an open question whether whether the 5501 will be able to do that, from a CPU power and bandwidth standpoint. The real limitation will probably be amount of memory: To run a 1TB file server under OpenBSD you really need to have at least 1GB of memory available to the file system (once the kernel has taken its part), so you can run fsck and have enough file system buffer space. To have some space for applications, and for safety margin, the system should probably have 2GB of RAM, and you can't do that on a 5501. We'll see whether this workload will fit in the 1/2GB of the 5501 (I'm willing to live with long boot times and swapping during fsck). -- Ralph Becker-Szendy ralph at lr dot los-gatos dot ca dot us 735 Sunset Ridge Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95033 408-395-1435 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
