Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread DA Forsyth
I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board was an ASUS P3 1.1GHz, which now hosts my backup server. Both ran

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. Core2 is actually only a bit faster per clock cycle than PIII, but you

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth d.fors...@ru.ac.za wrote: I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth d.fors...@ru.ac.za wrote: I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread DA Forsyth
On 8 Jun 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2: Message: 13 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:18:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
If you want to use gmirror + gjournal on the root filesystem (/), be sure to use FreeBSD 7.2. A bug prevented the system to boot on unclean shutdown because the replay of the journal took too much time and FreeBSD wanted to mount non-existant (yet) devices. It caused me a lot of trouble when I

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of that even when under load. In fact a typical modern desktop computer will, when idle, draw

Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba. What i mainly try to

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba.

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:57:21PM +0300, Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. this is not old - very powerfull machine. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba.

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com: Hello community,  I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM.  I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:16:49PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: What i mainly try to achieve, talking in storage space, is 2 HDD of 1TB in mirroring using gmirror(8) and 1 separate HDD of 500Gb. So do you think the system I've mentioned would handle the load? The server 10 times more

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
10 times more power than needed. disks speed is the only limit I have a P-II at 400 MHz running as a file server. See about 5 MB/sec on it depends from both sides ability, but pentium 100 with SDRAM memory can saturate 100Mbit/s network running FreeBSD 6.2

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch. is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me. i made all-need server for small office (8 people) using PIII/500 and 384 MB RAM. i

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Wojciech Puchar wrote: This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch. is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me. Not really. But considering how everyone is buying Core

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Wojciech Puchar wrote: This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch. is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me. Sorry - it wasn't really intended that way. Please note

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Sorry - it wasn't really intended that way. Please note that slightly downlevel... was meant to refer to a combination of older Netburst architecture and consumer retail motherboard. The Core Xeons that replaced the old Netburst processors are much better performers. In a true datacenter server

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me. Not really. But considering how everyone is buying Core Duos and quads these days, you can get decent P4s for free. could you please tell me where i can get P4 machine for free? :)

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ 2009/6/5 Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com: Hello community,  I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM.  I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com: I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ What a waste... How much power does that chug?? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W of power when idle with EIST enabled. This power draw on Intel 45nm CPUs

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/5/09, Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com wrote: Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W of power when

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W of power when idle with EIST enabled. This power draw unless CPU are

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:43:23AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of that even when under load. In fact a typical modern desktop computer will, when idle, draw less than 100W for the whole system. It is not even

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:31:16AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of that even when under load. In fact a typical modern desktop computer will,