Comment multi servers on a linux box (Score 1) 63
linux has problems multitasking, or at least keeping different servers on their respective sides of the couch
uhmmm let's see. i have two machines at home. of which one, and AMD k6, 64MB runs:
a small news server (INN)
an email server, sendmail.
an SQL database, postgres.
nfs serves /net/usr and /net/home to the second machine. (kernel nfsd)
NIS server
web server (apache)
dial-up server. (diald)
dns server for two small zones. (named)
ftp server..
more i can't think of out my head.
3 X servers always running.
and it runs rc5des at nice 20 all the time, as does the second machine.
none of the servers are heavily loaded, but there are a lot of them, and from experience linux scales pretty well, as long as you have enough memory to avoid active apps being swapped out.
performance is excellent even with 64MB, netscape and staroffice are my biggest performance problems (memory hogs)
uhmmm let's see. i have two machines at home. of which one, and AMD k6, 64MB runs:
a small news server (INN)
an email server, sendmail.
an SQL database, postgres.
nfs serves
NIS server
web server (apache)
dial-up server. (diald)
dns server for two small zones. (named)
ftp server..
more i can't think of out my head.
3 X servers always running.
and it runs rc5des at nice 20 all the time, as does the second machine.
none of the servers are heavily loaded, but there are a lot of them, and from experience linux scales pretty well, as long as you have enough memory to avoid active apps being swapped out.
performance is excellent even with 64MB, netscape and staroffice are my biggest performance problems (memory hogs)
