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From: mjr@lyseo.otol.fi (Mikko Rauhala)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system
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Date: 15 Sep 1995 07:10:49 GMT
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Sam (sl63@crux3.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
:   I need to run an FTP and HTTP server on an extremely limited machine.
: The only resources I have at my disposal are a 486DLC, with 2, yes 2, megs
: of RAM... Fortunately, I have a reasonably fast IDE HD...
:   My question is, will either linux or FreeBSD run at all with 2 Megabytes?
: And if they will, what sort of performance should I expect with a low load
: (no more than 10 user) FTP server and HTTPD running?  Oh yeah, it will have
: a network connection, so bandwidth will not be a slowdown.

I can at least answer that yes, Linux runs in 2 megs I hear. I don't, 
however, think that you'd be getting good performace from this system as 
a ftp/www-server, and it's most definitely a question of ram...

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