Hello ,

I have 2 identical IBM boxes for use with Linux.
Each one has
Pentium III 450Mhz , S3 VGA on board ,10/100 LAN card ,CD or DVD drive too.
These boxes obviously use the same type of memory so I have
2 X64MB and
2 X168MB chips available for BOTH of them.

I would like to set web server using apache.I also have got latest Debian [full on 2 DVDs], which I decided not to use ,because I couldn't set the S3
[Yes I am an experienced Linux user ,just don't care really probe and editing text files just to get it work,I prefer using another Distro like Suse's]

Right now I don't want to byu more memory for these.I am also considering buying a new box for use with it ,so I prefer to pay for it.

Questions

1.What do you think is best
a. 1x256MB & 1x128MB or
b. 2x192MB
???

2.What are your experience for AMD Athlon64 with Linux in terms of stability ???
nyone using the X2 version ??

3.for these 2 450Mhz boxes how 192MBS sounds for server apps ???

Thanks gyus

1. I've never seen 192MB sticks of RAM, so I'll suggest teh 256MB and 128MB combo

2. I tested the Fedora, SusE and Gentoo x86_64 versions and none were stable enough for me to use in a server environment. The most stable was gentoo, but I still had issues with software packages being fairly up-to-date. On all distros, I downloaded the full sources from kernel.org rather than using their stock kernels

3. Depending on the CPU load, network load, and their storage bus speeds, they should be able to handle being office servers or home usage. If this is for a company with more than 100 employees, or a website that is going to be producing a lot of traffic, I'd question the memory and storage aspects more than processor speeds.

Well, in fact, IBM recommends SuSE as server.
Runs quite good on my box

I haven't see any 192mb RAM Chips too.
What I mean is 1x 64MB + 1x128 =192 mb RAM :-)

Depend on the load of traffic and purpose, but I guess it's better to have more ram in a server.

If you serve something like static pages on a small load environment. Try to use the 192Mb configuration first. Do not load X, it's unecessary on a server

If you arent running X on the machine, you shouldnt break a sweat running web servers on thoes two boxes, even with only 128 megs of ram each.

a pentium 200 mmx with 64 megs of ram can saturate a t-1.


I have three multi-gigahertz boxes with a gig of ram each here, and I still use an old imac 233 with 48 megs of ram for my web server. The bottleneck is definatly my outbound bandwidth, not the speed of the machine.