[oclug] The power of OSS/GNU/Linux

[Sandy Mac Donell]

Hello Shad,

How long did it take you to setup Qmail?

Sandy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shad Young" <shad.young at sympatico.ca>
To: <oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 6:51 PM
Subject: [oclug] The power of OSS/GNU/Linux


> I had an opportunity to engage in a debate with a fellow about the power
of
> Linux the other day. After I had begun to outline the virtues of the Linux
> environment I began to recall the enormity of what one machine could do.
>
> The machine:
> unbelievably a K6 233 with 64 MB EDO RAM
> 7 Gig Quantum HDD
> 2 realtek 10baseT
> Cheapo hub.
> no video card (except during setup of X)
> no keyboard
> no mouse
>
> Services:
> Red Hat 6.2 with Kernel 2.2.6
> Fully configured Apache 1.3/CGI/Perl/PHP with a dozen websites averaging
> 10,000 hits a month
> BIND running 10 or so domains.
> Qmail with 30 accounts
> MySQL with webmin for a web forum
> exported X for remote administration (sorry I am a gui person)
> KDE 1
> full development suite
> six online games in active development
> 2 on-line games operational with 10 to thirty players at any given time
> 24 active accounts for developers and programmers with 2 or three logged
on
> at any given time.
>
> all that and my users were constantly amazed at its speed. Recompiling
their
> game modules usually took minutes; and this from guys who developed in
> windows on 1 gig Athlons at home. (game runners would complain about the
lag
> when recompiling a kernel, but that's about it).
>
> I was going for an OCLUG record uptime and was on day 303, when our
favorite
> Catholic evangelist logged on and used Netscape (I forgot to uninstall the
> stock version) which had an enormous memory leak. Nothing I tried would
get
> this machine to respond as it filled up the memory and 512 megs of swap
> space and began to loop. My girlfriend thought I had hurt myself when I
> screamed in despair after I realized a hard shutdown was required. It took
> literally an hour to respond to one keystroke as it swapped and swapped
and
> swapped ROFL. I could have killed you Francis ;).
>
> I would also like to thank Olaf Baumann and obone.ca for providing me with
a
> development platform and host for my current project. It is giving me an
> opportunity to learn about Debian in the process.
>
>
> Cheers
> Shad
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