2 Questions

[Christopher Kelley]

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>> Subject:
>> Re: 2 Questions
>> From:
>> Kresimir Kumericki <kkumer at phy.hr>
>> Date:
>> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:52:59 +0200
>> To:
>> stable at freebsd.org
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>>
>> While we're at it ... I have this old Pentium 200 MHz with 96MB RAM 
>> running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE. How much more system resources (RAM and 
>> CPU) FreeBSD 5.* needs in comparison to 4.8? I just want to hear some 
>> educated guess, whether for me it is recomended at all to upgrade at 
>> some point or am I better off tracking 4-STABLE (at least while it is 
>> supported by security patches an such).
>>
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>>
I'm currently running 5.1-RELEASE as a firewall/router/internal DNS 
server on a P166 with 64MB ram, for an admittedly small home network.  I 
choose 5.1 because I wanted to run the pf port from OpenBSD.  I have a 
2.4 gig drive with /, /var, /tmp, and /usr, and a 325 meg drive with 
swap and /home.  It typically runs about 98% idle.  I did compile a 
custom kernel to get rid of the drivers and such that my system didn't 
need (had to anyways, to run pf).  I'm very happy with the performance 
of that system.  I had run 4.8-RELEASE on that box before turning it 
into a router, and I really can't tell any difference between 4.8 and 5.1.