Server information
| CPU | Pentium Dual-Core E5200 |
| Memory | 4096 MiB (shared, 3300MiB usable???) |
| Disk | Samsung 64GB SSD |
| NIC0 (WAN) | 3com 3c905C-TX 100Mbps |
| NIC1 (LAN) | Intel 82574L 1Gbps connected to 3com 1GB switch. |
| Software | Debian AMD64 Linux w. kernel 2.6 Apache 2.2 w. PHP 5.2 Samba 3.2 intranet server Postfix 2.0 MTA Courier IMAP MySQL 5.0 |
| Extra features | Solid-State-Device used as root drive to speed up performance and reduce noise, otherwise its just a plain PC based on an AsRock motherboard (which has the unstable RTL8111DL chip on-board, hence the extra GigaBit NIC). |
| CPU | AMD Athlon64 X2 4400 (@ 1 GHz) |
| Memory | 2048 MiB (64 MiB shared for video) |
| Disk | 4008 GB total: 8 GiB SanDisk CompactFlash [/, /boot, /home, swap area] 2.7 TiB RAID5 (4 x WD1000EACS 1TB) [LVM - /archive 2.5TiB, /backup 48GiB] |
| NIC | OnBoard 1Gb RealTek 81xx |
| Software | Debian Linux w. kernel 2.6 Samba 3.2 intranet server |
| Extra features | This is our storage server In order to gather experience with flash, the root file system is located on a CompactFlash drive along with /boot, /home and the swap area (kernel swappiness was decreased to 0 to avoid some swapping - in this specific case, I would rather use my RAM for clean pages instead of disk cache to avoid unnescessary wear on the swap partition - even though most CF today has wear levelling, the will still be worn out after some time - especially if you keep writing the same sectors). CF does not support S.M.A.R.T. and the SATA units need to be tweaked a bit to support it. |
