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Re: Planning to purchase a server for Linux: Compaq or IBM? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Mertin)
Mon Nov 30 03:33:52 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:48:43 +0100
From: Joerg Mertin <smurphy@dspecialists.de>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981128011646.435A-100000@mrna.tn.nic.in>; from Rafi on Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 01:17:15AM +0530
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On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 01:17:15AM +0530, Rafi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We here at the Bioinformatics Centre, School of Biotechnology
> Madurai kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India wanted to purchase
> a server for our email/proxy services on RedHat Linux 5. Thanks to
> PCQuest for the RHL distribution on the May '98 CD. We have setup
> the linux for smtp/pop/proxy and other services but mainly for
> email and proxy.
>
> Currently, it is running on a P133MHZ, 16MB RAM, 2.1GB HDD.
> But we thought we should put more memory, more speed, more HDD space
> etc. to take over the traffic from all the places throughout the
> school. RHL setup here will be serving around more than 25 users from 25
> clients on our network which spans 3 different buildings. The number
> of users will go up as we add more computers to the network.
Dunno. At my old Workplace, a 486DX2-66MHz Machine with 32MB Ram was
serving 20 Workstations (NFS/NIS) for about 4000 registered Users. By now,
the server got powered up a little making it a iP166MHz MMX System with
128MB Ram, serving 72 Machines on this Subnet and managing about 10000
Users. So you still have a lot of power remaining...
Only Problem where it could become tight is the pop-daemon. It loads all
Mails in Ram before uploading them. So you better stick to an alternate
popper as the standard from imap-package.
Regards
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