On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 18:18 -0400, aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon 08 Oct 2007, Kam Leo wrote: > > > >> > I asked some days ago about a small home server, > >> > and now I have more or less decided on the specification: > >> > > >> > 1. A Mini-ITX machine, almost certainly VIA EPIA > >> > 2. Fanless > >> > 3. Using an 8GB or 16GB flash card (not a flash IDE disk) > >> > rather than a hard disk > >> > 4. I don't need any graphics, so poor graphics is fine > >> > 5. Running Fedora. > >> > > >> > Has anyone experience of a machine along these lines? > >> > Or any advice on where to get one? > >> > >> What functions will the server perform? Use a hard drive. If you need > >> access to swap your flash drive will not last very long. > > > > A. I would expect it to serve: httpd, sshd, sendmail, mysql, dovecot. > > httpd: Are you planning on running any server side languages like PhP, > Java, Perl and the like? If so, these can quickly us up lots of memory > and do like to be stored on the swap. I have 2gb of memory in my home > server and it still uses the swap regularly (I don't know how many times > it is hit during the day. Is there an easy way to tell?). That's what vmstat and sar is for. sar isn't installed by default, so "yum install sysstat" to get it. > sendmail: Anti-virus and spam filtering go well with email servers. And > they can really put a machine to the test. I use mailscanner, clamav and > spamassassin. They use lots of resources. Amen! > If it was me, I would find the smallest laptop drive and go for that. I agree. FLASH drives are peachy but have a limited number of write cycles they can handle. Laptop drives are pretty cheap and don't generate a lot of heat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
