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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news From: chua@cs.ubc.ca (Leonard Chua) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Recommendations (for 10BT ethernet and RAM) needed. Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 11:20:09 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Lines: 20 Message-ID: <31aed2cf.3424071@news.ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: srtb0411a07.resnet.ubc.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Hi, I am looking into setting up a web server (primarily). The machine configuration will probably be a P100 with 32 Mbytes of RAM, 1.2 Gbytes EIDE (I will upgrade to SCSI later) and of course, freeBSD as the OS. I currently have a SMC Elite+ (ISA WD8013C). From browsing through the newsgroups, I have some concerns: 1) Will 32 Mb of RAM (with adequate amount of swap) be enough? 2) I need to keep the CPU overhead for the ethernet card as low as possible. Is my SMC enough for this or should I upgrade now? I understand the DEC 21x40 series is highly respected. What vendors' cards would be using such chips? (or any other recommendations that you may have) I have been playing with Linux for a number of years now, but for my purposes now, I'm leaning towards freeBSD for it's stability and security. Thanks in advance. Len.