[CentOS] How fast?

ML mailinglists at MailNewsRSS.com
Tue Oct 6 00:07:10 UTC 2009


>> I replaced a modern retail firewall/router with a 500 Mhz Celeron  
>> with
>> 512K RAM  (Intel 810e motherboard) and a PCI dual port ethernet card
>> of
>> because the 'modern' POS turnkey couldn't handle 100 mbits/second
>> through the WAN interface. The 500Mhz celeron with CentOS5 handled
>> that
>> plus DNS and DHCP without ever cracking 1% CPU usage.
>
> That proves 614K should be enough for anybody.

ah *snap*!

-ML



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