thus Tomasz Chmielewski spake: > Brad Knowles wrote: >> Carl Zwanzig wrote: >> >>>>> I'm trying to run mailman 2.1.8 on a system with only 32 MB RAM (and >>>>> ~100 MB swap). >>>> So, at an absolute minimum, this machine would require ~236MB swap space >>>> and ~56MB of real RAM, plus the OS requirements. Given these numbers, I >>>> wouldn't try to run Mailman on a machine with less than 512MB of swap >>>> and 128MB of RAM. >>> FWIW, I'm running mailman on an openbsd system w/ 64M ram and 200M swap >>> on an old Compaq P90. Active software includes mailman (2.1.5), apache, >>> postfix, and bind. Not very speedy, but works well enough for <50 member >>> lists. >> Cool. I'll update the FAQ entry with this info. >> >>> top tells me: >>> Memory: Real: 23M/47M act/tot Free: 11M Swap: 41M/200M used/tot > > You can update it with "really minimal system": I added some more swap, > and mailman started :) > > So right now, it is: > > - debian running on a 200 MHz mipsel CPU / 32 MB router (ASUS WL-500G > deluxe) > - usb stick with 256 MB swap > - system on another USB-stick > - it runs apache2, postfix, sshd, openvpn, ez-ipupdate, crond, pppd and > syslog > - it acts as a internet gateway to a couple of PCs > > I wouldn't say that mailman is speedy there - an average operation in > the mailman web interface can take even 10-15-20 seconds.
hm, that might be python causing paging on the machine; however, maybe if you use a httpd with smaller footprint (lighthttpd, thttpd) this avoids paging and makes the machine faster. just speculation, tho... > But the thing that was the most important to me: web archive, works > fast, and on average, it takes less than a second to serve a page. > > Provided that it's not a PC, but a router with a size of a book, with > filesystem and swap on usb-sticks, I would say it's OK to keep an > archive of a small site. MIPS rules ;) -- Timo Schoeler | http://riscworks.net/~tis | [EMAIL PROTECTED] RISCworks -- Perfection is a powerful message ISP | POWER & PowerPC afficinados | Networking, Security, BSD services GPG Key fingerprint = B5F6 68A4 EC45 C309 6770 38C4 50E8 2740 9E0C F20A There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
