28 Sep
2012
28 Sep
'12
12:19 a.m.
>>>
Eight core Xeon with 96 gigs of RAM...
There is just no way someone is going to
spec a machine that large
for such a small task without some other background motive. A modern Linux or BSD distribution typically expects
gobs of memory
(1GB+) but I've found most will run well with 128MB so long as swap
is available [...]. [...] a 486 based system will simply not have
enough physical memory available (generally no more than 32MB) and it
would craw to a halt with a modern OS while trying to swap stuff out
to disc while serving up pages via Apache.
Perhaps, if you insist on running apache. Unless you actually need
some of its more complex features, using apache for static content is a
bit like using a Saturn V to launch a paper airplane.
I found 32M plenty usable for NetBSD until I pushed one machine to
4.0.1 and tried to self-host; the compiler was so bloated it thrashed
itself to death. At 64M there was no problem. (That's approximately
the point at which I stopped trying to "upgrade" my machines, not
entirely coincidentally.)
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