On May 11, 2004, at 8:25 AM, Jack Gallemore wrote:
Are there any guidelines on the amount of RAM in a Stage II Rocket? I've got a IIci with 128MB of system RAM and was wondering if there was an optimal RAM size for the Rocket (more is not necessarily alway better, so I've been told).
It depends on the software you want to run on it. I think the 8MB minimum is too small for much of anything. 32 is probably much better for most uses.
This is going to be my communications gateway (SMTP, fax, local talk bridge) and sit behind a Linksys Router/Firewall. I figured to use the Rocket for the networking side, so I'm even wondering if I need the 128MB RAM on the system board. Would it be more prudent to put that RAM on the Rocket and simply 32MB on the system board?
I have used SIMS (the freeware version of Communigate SMTP Server) on a 68k Mac with 16MB RAM from behind a D-Link Router/Firewall on an ADSL connection and it works very well. Unfortunately it seems to have fallen behind in the communication protocol version relative to other servers. Your mail may or may not go through. Also, with any SMTP server of your own, you will be blocked from sending to AOL and some other ISP's. They do a reverse DNS lookup to see if the upstream server is on a dynamically assigned IP address and reject the message as spam if it is.
Local talk bridge doesn't take much RAM at all, I think.
The fax bit is where you may need some RAM, depending on how the software handles things. If it insists on caching the whole fax to RAM every time, and you can't change that behavior in preferences, you may get an error of type -108 every time someone sends you a fax that's bigger than the amount of RAM assigned to your fax software (as configured in the "get info" window). This would most likely only be the case if the fax software is intended for state of the art computers which are now often shipping with 256MB or more RAM and have virtual memory on by default. You should use fax software that has it's own capacity to spool to disk and, if you have the SCSI II daughter card on your rocket, use an external HD connected to that.
-Aram
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