[96545] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Drive Sizes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Tue Oct 27 21:07:50 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:07:28 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Anthony S. Nixon wrote:
>I have a few questions that I have no experience in.
>
>1) I am running a imap/pop3 mail server that serves about 20 accounts. May
>grow to 30 but not likely. How large should the /var partition be for normal
>mail traffic, and how large should the /home partition be to handle the mail
>(I use procmail - does that move the mail from the spool to the user's
>home?) for each user. I presently have a quota set of 5MB per user.
>
depends entirely on how much these people use email, and how many mailing
lists they have subscribed themselves to!
procmail by default does not move the mail into the users home directory -
it'll sit in /var/spool/mail. A simple recipe would move it, though.
>2) I am also running a web/ftp server and DNS on the same system. I would
>also like to allow them their own web sites (they already have them but do
>not know this right now). The computer is a 75Mhz Pentium, but how much Ram
>should I have installed? I presently have 32MB of EDO RAM installed.
>
like the above, it depends entirely on how much activity the web sites
will generate. I might prefer to have 64M to start any kind of
webserving. If you stick with 32M I'd tune down the number of servers
apache starts by default (if you're using apache) since by default it
ate 24M of memory by itself.
hope that helps. as a final piece of advice, I'd say start with what you
have but be ready to shell out some $$ to upgrade if the users complain,
else request them to use less resources...
-dave
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