1 Oct
2012
1 Oct
'12
5:28 a.m.
On Oct 1, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Tothwolf wrote:
Any PII and PIII will support at a minimum 512MB of
ram (even the consumer chipsets), but as long as you have swap, 32MB or 64MB would
probably work. It's when you are running the entire OS from media such as CompactFlash
or SD card where you don't have swap that having less memory can become a challenge
with modern software (no X, gui, etc). As cheap as second hand SDRAM modules are though,
adding more memory is the easiest solution.
Sure, assuming the option is available. For a long time, I ran
my home router on a PC-104 stack running an AMD Elan (which, if
I recall correctly, is an Am5x86 System-on-a-Chip) which had its
32MB RAM soldered to the board. It made a certain amount of
sense, since PC-104 is widely used as an industrial platform,
but I certainly couldn't expand the RAM.
In any case, this ran OpenBSD 3.0 on a 32 MB CompactFlash just
fine (stripped down to fit, of course, but fine) and handled
all the traffic to our webserver over the DSL line just fine.
I don't anticipate that modern OpenBSD would perform the same;
we recently upgraded to a Mini-ITX Atom board with 2 GB of RAM
and run modern OpenBSD relatively comfortably.
- Dave