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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!not-for-mail From: nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: High-end FreeBSD server config suggestions needed please Date: 17 Sep 1996 18:42:22 +0100 Organization: EUnet Ireland Lines: 18 Message-ID: <51mntu$2s3@ezekiel.ieunet.ie> References: <DxuqK0.ID8@hparc12.aus.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ieunet.ie X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] M C Wong (mcw@aus.hp.com) said: : I will soon need a couple of very powerful server running FreeBSD : (perhaps 2.1.5), and it will be NFS, mail, DNS, NNTP, firewall, HTTP, : FTP, login, router etc server. I have in mind about 4GB disk space and : 32MB RAM to start off with. 4GB disk space and 32MB RAM is pretty small these days. For news alone, I'd put in at least 8Gb disk (for the spool) and 64Mb memory. Also, NFS and firewall capability are completely incompatible with each other. NFS opens up horrible security holes on your system which you probably won't want. The kernel parameters you might want to tune are "maxusers", "CHILD_MAX" and "OPEN_MAX". See the LINT kernel configuration file for more information about what they do and how they work. Nick