[Soekris] Memory upgrade

[Pontus Pihlgren]

Farid Hajji skrev:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:18:31 +0100
> Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi All.
>>
>> This is my first post to the list. I hope I'm not asking something 
>> already answered.
>>
>> I'm planning on buying a net5501 as Christmas gift for myself. I just 
>> can't decide whether I should go for the net5501-60 or the
>> net5501-70. I think the processor is good enough in both versions for
>> my purposes. But I'm not sure 256 MB of memory will be enough. I'm
>> planning to run it as an access point and as a file server. Probably
>> also bit torrent, maybe a small web server and as tftp server for net
>> booting other machines.
>>
>> What is your experience, is 256 enough. Is it difficult to upgrade 
>> later? I'm not very handy with the soldering iron and I guess finding 
>> the memory chips might not be trivial.
>>     
>
> I'm using FreeBSD (6.3-PRE) on a net4801 (128 MB) running as
> a ppp router with pf. Servers are lighttpd for many domains,
> (Apache is too memory hungry), postfix, cyrus-imap, dhcpd, nfsd,
> named, ntpd. There's still enough memory for a couple more (I've
> used ctorrent on it too without problems, though I prefer to run
> mldonkey on an internal machine and just relay torrent traffic
> from and to it with pf).
>
> So if 128 MB are good enough for this, 256 MB would be more than
> comfortable... unless you plan to run memory hungry stuff.
>   
Thank you for you answer. I think I'll do some more research into the 
applications I intend to run. I was thinking of some database too, but 
maybe thats pushing the machine a bit to much.

I guess sqlite would work fine, but I think it is a bit to lightweight.


> Regards,
> -Farid.
>   

Regards,
Pontus.