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#! rnews 2015 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommendations (for 10BT ethernet and RAM) needed. Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 08:23:43 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <31B0607F.40@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31aed2cf.3424071@news.ucs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) Leonard Chua wrote: > > 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) My sit is up and running with a bit less than you describe. It is currently on a '486DX50 with 32 MB RAM and a 1.6 GB Western Digital HD (Caviar series EIDE). My ISP connection is a dedicated 28.8 dial-up, and the net card for my home network is an NE2100 in this one machine. All other boxes in my home network (8 of them) use generic NE2000 cards. So far, it's working fine as long as the telco or my ISP don't drop my connection! So go ahead and start with what you have. It should work OK, and you can upgrade later. Ken