Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
On Mon, September 18, 2006 8:47 am, Oliver Fromme wrote:
(I think DragonFly still
supports the 80386, but I'm not sure.)
It's still supported in that support for it hasn't been explicitly
removed, but I don't think anyone has tested it in the last few releases.
By the way, my main server at home was a Pentium-75 until
recently. I replaced it with a low-power EPIA board (with
VIA C3 processor), mainly because the Pentium-75 couldn't
be upgraded beyond 128 MB RAM, and I needed more RAM
because the Squid proxy caused paging sometimes. Other
than that, the Pentium-75 was perfect and even ran fanless
(with a huge self-made heatsink) at ~ 30 °C.
I've been curious to figure out what the CPU power/electrical power 'sweet
spot' is for a home server; the C3 CPUs sound not bad.
The C3 - or the MB they commonly shipped on - were FreeBSD problematic in
earlier releases, so we just 'underclocked' Celerons to where a copper 1U HS w/o
fans was at least marginally good enuf, i.e 1.2, 1.3 GHz @ 1 GHz, etc.
The recent 'Matsonic' MSCLE266-F with VIA CLE266+8235, CPU rated '2000+', and
using 2 X DDR PC2100 are 'golden'. Has VGA, LAN, and Audio on-board.
Not intended as a 'server' MB, but gets the job done just fine in 1U, and should
make a quiet and cool-running home machine as well (though all of ours are even
quieter G4 PPc now...).
FWIW, VIA is sampling a new low-power/heat multi-CPU SBC (C7?) that we are
keeping an eye on...
Bill
