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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Specifications for potential machines Date: 27 Jul 1996 22:38:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4te5pl$2ts@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Dv2ux4.M54@mv.mv.com> 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 ed@mv.mv.com (Ed Paquette) wrote: > I want to create two machines, one for EXCLUSIVE dns, and one for > EXCLUSIVE mail. In fact, I don't intend on allowing shell on either one > of these. > > My question is, how beefy do I need to make these machines? How much > memory / cpu should I have in each one for adequate use? Can I get by > with 486/33's with 8MB, or will I need 16? For the DNS machine, 4 MB are sufficient. The mail relay should be able to run fine with 8 MB unless it's a _very_ busy mailer (with more than ~ 30 mails per minute). The most important thing for the DNS machine is that its hardware should be rock-solid, so you don't involunteereley lose its cache. -- 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. ;-)