[SunRescue] Re: [Sunhelp] Assigning a second IP address

[Ken Hansen]

Geez, I think I can count on one hand the number of devides I have with only
4 Meg RAM...;^)

Jim, the RAM is a function of not only the application mix, but also the OS
involved - are you going to run Solaris on this IPC? OpenBSD? Linux? NetBSD?

Ken
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From: <jwbirdsa at picarefy.picarefy.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:29 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] Re: [Sunhelp] Assigning a second IP address


> >I plan on using my IPC for a DNS server.  Would 48MB be adequete?
>
>    Overkill and beyond.
>
>    I have a pair of dedicated DNS servers which serve all the machines on
> my LAN and are the authoritative servers for more than a dozen domains.
>
>    They're unexpanded 3/50's running NetBSD 1.4 from local disk. With only
> 4M RAM, the named process gradually drives everything else out of memory,
> but that's OK since they aren't doing anything else except for the
occasional
> interactive update to the domain files.