From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Largent Subject: Re: Re[4]: Linux Help Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:01:52 -0400 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1090432912.4897.8.camel@milhouse.imagelinks.com> References: <20040719235014.4844.SAVAGE-GARDEN@hanikamail.com> <025801c46dba$8bc16af0$530a0a0a@rutgersinsurance.com> <20040720000918.484C.SAVAGE-GARDEN@hanikamail.com> <16636.21568.952345.578826@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16636.21568.952345.578826@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Glynn Clements Cc: Kev , Linux Admin Glynn, I'll let you correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ip filtering also a memory requirement? I'm thinks specifically of connection tracking. Jeff On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:07, Glynn Clements wrote: > Kev wrote: > > > i was just saying what i will be running on the server, i was asking if > > i can run all that on a P1/166Mhz > > It depends upon the amount of network traffic. > > Networking daemons (and the IP filtering code) only consume CPU time > when they're actually doing something, and the amount of CPU time used > is roughly proportional to the amount of work they have to do. > > Try it. If the load average is consistently high, you need a faster > CPU. If the hard disk is always busy, you need more RAM. If the box is > mostly idle but it still seems too slow, you need a faster Internet > connection.