Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

[Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman]

Well, here we're running a Pentium/60 with 48 MB RAM and a 4.0 GB EIDE
hard drive, with a 33.6 modem for internet feed and a 12 workstation LAN
(Win95 and MacOS boxes).  It also runs Apache as a proxy web-server, and X
Windows (Netscape, ApplixWare) for a couple of X terminals, as well as
three terminals (VT220) hooked up to standard PC COM ports.  It manages
IP routing, HTTP proxy, Samba and Netatalk file/print services, an HP
LaserJet 5L (exported as a postscript printer using Ghostscript 5.0), et
cetera, all on RedHat 5 and without breaking a sweat.

On top of all that, I and a few others do our GCC CGI script development
(C/C++) on this beast and test it on the LAN before uploading it to the
main server across the modem connection, where our 'real' Internet box
sits on the ethernet backbone across campus.

uptime usually looks something like this:
[crank@sprawl /tmp]$ uptime
  1:45am  up 3 days,  3:20,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.01

That's more than enough hardware, IMHO.

> I am curious as to what kind of load using Linux as a router places on
> a machine. I want to use a RH box with an ISDN circuit to route to a
> 5 to 6 computer lan. I want to also use the Linux machine as a mail and
> web server. The Linux box is a dual pent 200 mmx machine with all
> UW SCSI and 2 intel pro pci network adapters (128M ram). The web
> server will have moderate activity but the mail server will only cater to
> a handfull of accounts (probably only receiving between 300 - 500 
> messages a day and sending out much less). My main question is,
> once I have all this running, can the machine still support code develop-
> ment without considerable lag? (All logins will be from the console or the
> immediate LAN)
> 
> Thanks,
> CC
> 
> 
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