Re: COMPUTERS!

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 15:42 -0800, Mac Mason wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:20:27PM -0900, damien hull wrote:
> > I was offered a bunch of computers. Most are PII somewhere around 200
> > mhz. I told them I didn't have a use for them and that they were to slow
> > to do anything with.
> And you were wrong, I'm afraid. A P2 is plenty fast enough to do just about
> any middle- or low-traffic server work.
>
> For instance, I've got a p2-300 serving an instance of Gallery to five or ten
> users, plus about 150 gigs of data to several hundred college students. On top
> of that, I stream all my media (mp3s just about constantly, plus movies, more
> often than not) off the machine. It never even skips in playback, even with
> all of this going on at once.
>
> To make it slow down usually requires all that use plus a copy of make
> buildworld going on in the background.
>
> By my measure, that's plenty fast.
>
> -Mac
>

I've got a Dell OptiPlex Gx1 (PII) serving up a few things so I know
what your taking about. If you have a use for older machines then use
them. If you are planing to give these away or expect others to jump in
on the action good luck. I think most users on the list are looking for
a desktop system.

Nice to see someone using FreeBSD.

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Received on Mon Feb 28 12:37:35 2005