Fedora server
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Wed Oct 10 23:09:54 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 18:18 -0400, aragonx at dcsnow.com 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.
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