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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.otol.fi!news.lyseo.otol.fi!tekst4.lyseo.otol.fi!not-for-mail From: mjr@lyseo.otol.fi (Mikko Rauhala) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 15 Sep 1995 07:10:49 GMT Organization: Oulun Lyseon Lukio Lines: 18 Message-ID: <43b8tp$aat@hobbes.lyseo.otol.fi> References: <43a1u6$572@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tekst4.lyseo.otol.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:61062 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6293 Sam (sl63@crux3.cit.cornell.edu) wrote: : I need to run an FTP and HTTP server on an extremely limited machine. : The only resources I have at my disposal are a 486DLC, with 2, yes 2, megs : of RAM... Fortunately, I have a reasonably fast IDE HD... : My question is, will either linux or FreeBSD run at all with 2 Megabytes? : And if they will, what sort of performance should I expect with a low load : (no more than 10 user) FTP server and HTTPD running? Oh yeah, it will have : a network connection, so bandwidth will not be a slowdown. I can at least answer that yes, Linux runs in 2 megs I hear. I don't, however, think that you'd be getting good performace from this system as a ftp/www-server, and it's most definitely a question of ram... -- Mikko Rauhala | E-mail : mjr@lyseo.otol.fi Laitakarintie 16 | WWW : http://www.lyseo.otol.fi/~mjr 90850 Martinniemi | Phone : +358-81-5409066 Finland | Finger for PGP public key