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Linux services???How many daemons

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by cybersekkin

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Okay this may sound stupid. Up until recently most of our network was NT based and I have been switching over to Linux boxes ( with great sucess ) How many daemons on a PIII 700Mhz with 256M RAM would you set up <> Any problems with these daemons on the same system?? Also I am planning to try Samba as the Login.

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by mckaytech

With a P3/700 and 256meg of RAM, you can pile a heckuva lot of services on a Linux box and I don't see any problem with running all of the services you listed. Where I tend to get careful is when I have Apache and a database (e.g. MySQL) running onthe same box. On a server I'm looking at right now (P2/233 with 256meg), the resources used by Apache are about ten times the resources used by the next busiest process.

So much of a correct answer depends on the nature of your network traffic that I'm hesistant to even make a guess as to how much is too much. So my recommendation would be to use the TOP utility to watch your processes and see how much they actually consume in the way of resources.

paul

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