On Wed, April 12, 2017 1:31 pm, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 12/04/2017 à 19:41, Andrew Holway a écrit : >> Between the early 1990's and early 2000's the price of a GB of memory went >> from ~$100,000 to ~$1000*. I guess a lot of the design decisions made for >> things like init were focussed on this. In 1995 is was common for server >> platforms to have 32Mb ram whereas the kernel alone in my PC here at home >> is consuming just over 500MB. It seems reasonable that software components >> built in 1997 will not be fit for purpose in 2017. > > Back in 2013 I did some Linux training for a company in Montpellier. The first week the server racks hadn't been delivered yet, so we were stuck. In a cupboard, I found an antique Dell Poweredge 1300 server that was out of service, made around 1997 or so. I dusted it off, found a power cable, a monitor, a network cable and a keyboard and connected the thing. It had a P-III 500 MHz processor, 3 x 9 GB SCSI disks and a whooping 128 MB of RAM, and not a single USB port (only parallel). > > I happened to have the three CD-Rom set of Slackware 14.0 32-bit, so I gave that a spin. The installation took quite some time, but after the initial reboot, I managed to login, and the base system took no more than 15 MB RAM. > > So the first week we began working the course on this machine (which we aptly named "grossebertha", because it was a noisy monster). After a week or so, our new hardware arrived, and since the Windows trainer complained about "8 GB RAM not being enough for a Windows server installation", we decided just to nag him a bit to see how far we could take the course on our old machine. In the end, we had NTP, Dnsmasq, Samba, NIS+NFS, a LAMP stack, Squid, SquidGuard and SquidAnalyzer, and a few other things running on this old monster. When Windows 2000 came out some called it "bloated pig". Some 6 years down the road Linux started catching up ;-) Then we stopped laughing about Windows. Valeri > > Cheers, > > Niki > > -- > Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables > 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat > Web : http://www.microlinux.fr > Mail : info at microlinux.fr > Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++