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Re: Postfix on 64MB Ram

From: Alexey Lobanov (A.Lobanovcro-rct.ru)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 07:59:58 CST


Hi all.

09.02.2008 18:03, Wietse Venema пишет:

> Four years ago Postfix also ran on a pair of 32MB machines.

2.4.0 works here at i486/32M home IMAP mailserver, without any problems
and without any special optimization. Together with quite many other
routine tasks.

top - 16:45:03 up 33 days, 2:02, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01
Tasks: 37 total, 1 running, 36 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.6% user, 2.9% system, 0.0% nice, 95.5% idle
Mem: 30684k total, 30052k used, 632k free, 2396k buffers
Swap: 136512k total, 30116k used, 106396k free, 8840k cached

aalxxx:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 4
model : 15
model name : Am5x86-WB
stepping : 4
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu
bogomips : 66.56

$ uname -a
Linux **** 2.4.25-ow1 #4 Thu Mar 17 18:01:21 MSK 2005 i486 GNU/Linux

AFAIR, the most extremal mailserver configuration in my practice was 8
MB RAM. Somewhen in 1997.

Alexey