RE: {bb} BB hardware

[Mike.Jones@ons.gov.uk]

jhorne@plymouth.ac.uk wrote:

> I've currently got BB (1.3a) running on a linux redhat 6.1 PC (pentium
75,
> 1GB disk, 80Mb memory). However, the system tends to get overloaded if we
> run Netscape (version 4.7) on it directly. The idea was to have the
system
[snip]

I think the problem is with Netscape, not Big Brother

> Anyway, the question was simply what hardware do others run BB on? Do I
need
> something with more clout than the P75? It is monitoring about 70 systems
-
> some for everything (smtp,ftp,ntp,dns,conn,msgs,backups,etc,etc), others,
> like some of the Novell servers, are just monitoring ipx connectivity.

I've had a BBDISPLAY/BBNET server running quite happily on a 486/DX50 with
only 16MB of RAM, using Debian/GNU Linux 2.0 and  Apache 1.3.0 as the Web
server. It was monitoring around a dozen systems, but that's all it was
doing - no X, no Netscape.

BB is now running really well on a P133 with 32MB RAM (salvaged from the
"under powered as a MS Windows desktop machine" scrap heap) with Debian 2.1
and Apache 1.3.3  It slows down noticeably with X and Netscape running as
well - the load average shoots up from around 0.25 to around 2.5 or 3.

Incidentally - these are running on an intranet, so the limit is server
speed rather that network bandwidth.

HTH,

Mike

--
Mike Jones
Unix System Administrator
Office for National Statistics
Newport, South Wales, UK




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