[geeks] Ultra-1/170e replacement

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:23:06PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 17:59 +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > > From: patrick at mail.zill.net (Patrick Giagnocavo)
> Anyway, the U1 is actually my server box right now.  It's quite ballsy
> enough to run SA for myself and the few other users that I have, but I
> worry that it might not hold up running that spiffy photo management web
> app that somebody posted a week or two ago.  Ideally I'd have 4 drives,
> though 3 would cut it (mirrored system, mirrored data) and a faster CPU.

How much RAM do you have?  If less than 512MB, I would add that.  

Also, you might want to experiment with the -S (I think) flag to SA
that tells it to stop processing emails after they pass the spam
threshold you have set.  This might save you some CPU.

> > The U5s are nice, and I recommended them as well, but to exploit the
> > IDE controller included for the cheap storage.
> 
> Meh, I'm rather mixed on U5s, though I've not owned one, just used them
> a bit.  The IDE sucks ass, but I suppose for a webserver that just hosts
> family photo albums, it's not a big deal (certainly not as big a deal as
> CPU and RAM).  I assume that they will happily address a 120GB drive?

Yes, they will accept up to 137GB or so directly.  After that you
would need to figure out how to add an ATA/133 card, which supports a
larger drive.

--Patrick