Soft RAID is nearly transparent, low cpu or ram use, it uses some cpu but as you know 99% of time CPU just wait for bus... PF+VPN+SQUID+POSTFIX+SENDMAIL+APACHE+PHP ....classical webapp/mail server ? I guess ?
you may have enough memory with 4Go....higher memory is always better of course... Indunil Jayasooriya <induni...@gmail.com> wrote: If so just not use the fake-raid, disable it, and use soft-raid from BSD.   If used soft-raid from BSD, does it consume more RAM or processing functions etc?      I will have to use this server for PF , OpenVPN , Squid, Postfix or Sendmail and Apache etc..  Therfore I can't beleive HP proliant series use a fake-raid....   this is HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 Url    http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-detail.html?oid=53 79527#!tab%3Dspecs     Mine is a quite recent model DL380G5 but has a real hardware RAID 6 (I am writing this mail from this server). As mine you may have to enter into RAID carte separate BIOS than the mother board BIOS to activate disks & setup RAID-levels maybe you missed that step or exited without saving setup. Hmm, I will look in to it.  -- cat /etc/motd Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya http://www.theravadanet.net/ http://www.siyabas.lk/sinhala_how_to_install.html  - Download Sinhala Fonts Cordialement Francois Pussault 10 chemin de négo saoumos apt 202 - bat 2 31300 Toulouse +33 6 17 230 820  +33 5 34 365 269 fpussa...@contactoffice.fr
