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  From: Andrew Pullin <andrew@hotspurbgc.com.au>
  To  : Darryl Merritt" <darryl@dda.com.au>, "Linux SA <darryl@dda.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:46:06 +1000

Re: Linux PC Upgrade

Hi All,
    Why upgrade at all? Why not downgrade? That kind of
machine for a Router is like cracking eggs with a steam
hammer pile driver. I have a small network with 5 machines
running on it and a P 120 with 32Mb ram and a 1.6Gb HDD and
this is massive overkill. The only reason I have it is that
I wanted a PCI network card instead of an ISA one. My
suggestion is use the machine on the desktop and downgrade
to something similar to the P 120 option. It is much
cheaper.
    Cheers!
        Andrew.


-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Merritt <darryl@dda.com.au>
To: Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 22 June 2000 18:48
Subject: Linux PC Upgrade


>A customer has a RedHat V6 PC setup as a dedicated router
on a perm link to
>Telstra.
>It sits in the corner and runs only basic router
requirements..  ie
>sendmail, named, squid, apache, firewall, samba, everything
else has been
>turned off.
>
>It is a Pentium 233 with 64M RAM and 10G of disk space.
>
>What sort of performance change could I expect if this PC
was upgraded to a
>Celeron 400 with 64M RAM and the same 10G hard drive ?
>
>I wouldnt expect much gain as most of its activity is
passing packets around
>the interfaces, it hardly accesses the disk as squid is not
very busy as
>there are only a dozen users..
>
>
>
>Darryl
>
>
>
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