plug How much RAM do u need to set up a samba server?

Leon Brooks leonb at ami.com.au
Sun Jun 7 10:27:34 WST 1998


Matthew Murray wrote:
> I am running Linux Slackware - Kernel 2.0.34 on a 486 dx33 along with Samba,
> SNMP, SMTP 8.9.0, MYSQL, ORACLE, APACHE, IPFWADM with only 16MB RAM with a
> ethernet based hookup to the net.  Load on the machine hits around 0.5 max.
> In terms of testing you should be able to configure both samba and SMTP no
> probs on a 8MB machine, my LINUX gateway at home is only a little old 386DX
> 33 8MB RAM, hey it runs :)

Uh, I presume 0.5 PERCENT rather than 0.5 of the machine?


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