The flat file database "Nosql" is small and fast and uses very little resources. It runs using sed, awk and perl scripts. If you use it with a small shell like "ash" for example it should fulfill all the requirements you have for your muffler shop. Mike
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:23:30PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:01:16AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > | Thanks to everyone who's already responded. Rather than quote 5 > | differenet messages, I'll just spit out the questions here. > | > | While a GUI would be nice in terms of ease of use, the primary use is > | going to be in a muffler shop, so a mouse wouldn't survive long anyway. > | That leaves me with ncurses and from what I've read on here so far, it > | sounds like that should run ok, even on the 486 with 8 megs of RAM. > > I've got a Debian box here -- 486SX, 25Mhz, 8MB RAM, 230MB hard drive, > 2 10BaseT NICs. It handles the routing and masquerading quite well. > The only problem it has is with only 8MB of RAM it tends to thrash a > lot when doing "real" work. I can run vim, but it takes a noticeable > amount of time to startup. Running apt or dpkg requires taking a > break :-). > > | The remaining question is what can I do in terms of data storage/access. > | MySQL would be easy enough to work with, but what about performance? Can > | the systems handle MySQL? Unfortunately, my data storage experience is > | limited so I'm looking at either a premade solution (e.g. MySQL) or a > | flat file. > > The 486s and PPros should work just fine for you as long as they have > enough memory. CPU speed isn't the real bottleneck, even though the > CPU manufacturers would have consumers think otherwise. The real > bottleneck is memory. I haven't tried running a SQL db on this 486, > but I do know that exim can handle some load on it, but it can also > take down the system (if I let it overload the system so that the > kernel starts killing things to save itself). > > -D > > -- > > Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE > device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they > simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. > Pegasus is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's > staggering. > > http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm > > GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg > -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian biochemist, 1893-1986) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
