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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ingr.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sgigate.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommendations (for 10BT ethernet and RAM) needed. Date: 4 Jun 1996 20:49:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4p27gh$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31aed2cf.3424071@news.ucs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E chua@cs.ubc.ca (Leonard Chua) wrote: > 1) Will 32 Mb of RAM (with adequate amount of swap) be enough? I think so, but it rather depends on the number of HTTP daemons you need to run simultaneously, and the amount of CGI scripts that might consume memory. > 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 No need to upgrade unless you first kill your IDE drives. :) They are the worst offenders regarding CPU abuse. The SMC oldies are rather well-performing since they use shared memory (as opposed to PIO). > understand the DEC 21x40 series is highly respected. What vendors' > cards would be using such chips? (or any other recommendations that > you may have) DEC itself makes them, and at least SMC and Cogent. There are most likely more that i don't know of. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)