[BlueOnyx:13368] Re: What is the minimum & ideal PC specification ? (2)

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Mac,

I am running BX on two dell 1850's, one with 4 gig of ram (5106R) and 
one with 7 gig of Ram (5108R)

The machines only cost me ~ $350 each and I am very very happy at this 
point.

I don't even feel the need to go with a more powerful machine.... yet 
that is...

I'm sure on e of these days they will both start to slow down and I will 
need to upgrade but for now the 1850's have plenty of power.

My next move will be to buy  hardware that can deal with virtualization 
which I am guessing would take it's toll on my current hardware?

All that being said.......  I defer to the real pros. on this list.  
Michael,  Chris, and Gerald


I also have test BX  box in my basement.
Below is a snip from the GUI showing the hardware setup.

As you can see you don't need much to make it run.

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Processors     1
Model     Pentium II (Deschutes)
CPU Speed     398.28 Mhz
Cache Size     512.00 KB
System Bogomips     796.55
PCI Devices
-    Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
-    Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 
10/100
-    Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
-    IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
-    ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA
-    PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge
-    USB controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
-    VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3
IDE Devices
-    hda: WDC WD1600AAJB-00J3A0 (Capacity: 149.05 GB)
SCSI Devices     none
USB Devices     none

Free     Used     Size
Physical Memory       98%     6.66 MB     432.68 MB     439.34 MB
- Kernel + applications       41%           179.16 MB
- Buffers       33%           142.87 MB
- Cached       25%           110.65 MB
Disk Swap       0%     4.00 GB     796.00 KB     4.00 GB
Mounted Filesystems
Mount     Type     Partition     Percent Capacity     Free Used     Size
/boot     ext3     /dev/hda1      38% (1%)     56.47 MB     37.15 MB     
98.72 MB
/home     ext3     /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-home      22% (6%) 94.03 GB 
     28.10 GB     128.77 GB
/     ext3     /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-root      35% (1%)     3.49 GB     
2.02 GB     5.81 GB
/tmp     ext3     /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-tmp      3% (1%)     1.77 GB 
     67.07 MB     1.94 GB
/var     ext3     /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-var      7%     3.41 GB     
270.06 MB     3.87 GB
/dev/shm     tmpfs     tmpfs      0% (1%)     219.67 MB     0.00 KB     
219.67 MB
Totals :        22%     102.97 GB     30.49 GB     140.71 G






> Hi All...
> What is the minimum & ideal PC specification ?
> To try it out: I've just tried to install: 
> BlueOnyx-5107R-CentOS-6.3-20120903.iso
> ...onto my old but little used PC...
> Processor: P3 - 555Mhz
> HDD: 15GB
> Ram: 256MB Dim (max)
> I'm new to Servers, so I was not sure which option to choose from the 
> install menu,
> so I selected the option for HDD less than 20GB
> But it then said it couldn't install because there was insufficient Ram.
> It would have helped and saved a lot of time, if this basic info had 
> been on your website.
> Thanks Mac
>
>
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