[Preston] RE: memory

[John]

Well, I managed to boot IPCop up but only after swapping the cdrom drive
with one from another machine... The only problem I have got now is where to
lay my hands on an IPCop-compatible NIC. I tried a computer shop today but
they had no NIC's.... Anyone know of anywhere around the Preston / Kirkham /
Blackpool / Lytham areas?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Taylor" <steve@ramsbottom.net>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:12 AM
Subject: RE: [Preston] RE: memory


>
> > If I can get away with running IPCOP on the Compaq Prolinea 590
> > then what I would like to do is
> > use the PR166 for testing different distros. If I ramp up the RAM to say
> > 64MB, that should be good enough for X shouldn't it?
>
> Yes it will be enough for X, but not the KDE/Gnome windowmanager that the
> mainstream distros use by default
>
>
> > (this is what I love about
> > the list, there is ALWAYS somebody who knows what you need to know)
>
> Fortunately it isn't always me :-)
>
>
> > Is IPCop memory intensive, processor intensive or would you say I/O
> > intensive
>
> IPCop itself is not anything intensive except:-
>
> Squid (caching proxy server) can use as much RAM and HDD speed and
capacity
> as you can give it.
> IPSec (VPN software) will require CPU resources to encrypt the data stream
>
>
> > Thanks again Steve
> > I have found your advice to be very useful indeed....
>
> You're welcome. I am glad to be of assistance.
>
> Steve
>
>
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