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#! rnews 1879 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.tacom.army.mil!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Server hardware considerations.. Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 10:14:46 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 26 Message-ID: <312A0F96.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960219204849.14523A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> <3129E098.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > RAM: 16 meg to start with, maybe 32, There aren't any special > > considerations I should take when getting the RAM are there? > > Not so long as you get a PCI disk controller, no. Just to follow-up to myself here. It just occurred to me that there are actually more considerations than just this which I really should have mentioned. For one thing, if you're going to upgrade to a Pentium at some point, be sure and buy 72 pin "WIDE" memory so that you can preserve your memory investment. Also, if you're going to use a 100 or 133Mhz part, be sure and get *60 nanosecond* memory! This causes confusion for some people since the 90/120 Mhz parts will function just fine with 70ns memory, the reason being that those parts clock memory at 60Mhz rather than 66Mhz. That's another reason that a 100Mhz Pentium can often out-perform a 120Mhz one in benchmarks - what you gain in higher *processor* clock speed you can lose again in the slower *memory* clock speed. Just doing my bit to try and curb the spread of misinformation, especially when it's my own! :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project