My old debian system used to run off a p3 with 128 ram. The ram depends on what you use; I had a LAMP system going for being able to play with php/mysql stuff locally, but the more users you get on your site and the more daemons/processes running, the more ram you'll want. Php instances are rather big, etc. You can use swap too, but when the system starts thrashing you'll have issues in terms of speed. Reading and writing from the hd is considerably slower than ram, and the applications that are forced to use swap are going to be considerably slower than they would be if you had the right amount of ram for them to run. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield http://tds-solutions.net Twitter: sorressean On Mar 14, 2010, at 4:10 PM, JP Jamous wrote: > Thank you all for your feedback. I have to say that this is a new area for > me that I am exploring. I don't mind the command prompts, but I prefer the > GUI, due to speed and ease of use. > > I am just wondering how much RAM and CPU power does Linux use? The servers > that I would eventually like to install Linux on are P3 Xeon processors with > anywhere from 128MB of RAM up to 1GB. > > I am familiar with the history of Linux, but not the way it functions. I am > going to follow your feedback and give it a test drive. I just asked the > above questions to be ahead of the game when I implement it. Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
