Glynn, I'll let you correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ip filtering also a memory requirement? I'm thinks specifically of connection tracking. Jeff On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:07, Glynn Clements wrote: > Kev wrote: > > > i was just saying what i will be running on the server, i was asking if > > i can run all that on a P1/166Mhz > > It depends upon the amount of network traffic. > > Networking daemons (and the IP filtering code) only consume CPU time > when they're actually doing something, and the amount of CPU time used > is roughly proportional to the amount of work they have to do. > > Try it. If the load average is consistently high, you need a faster > CPU. If the hard disk is always busy, you need more RAM. If the box is > mostly idle but it still seems too slow, you need a faster Internet > connection. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
