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RE: How much space needed for a web server install?



Gee whiz, I should start outsourcing stuff when I wanna compile kernel or
any big chunk of stuff, so I don't have to order pizza each time I do the
compile.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SN_Diamond [mailto:Norman.Diamond@example.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:10 PM
> To: TLUG mailing list
> Subject: Re: How much space needed for a web server install?
>
>
> Scott Stone wrote:
>
> > btw, that 1267mhz DDR t-bird (256 megs ram) can compile a
> kernel in 3 min 40
> > sec.  that's the combined time for "make bzImage" and "make
> modules".  might
> > be faster if I had an ATA/100 disk, but mine's just a lowly ATA/66.
>
> With 256 MB RAM, you don't need an ATA/100 disk, you just need to put your
> swap partition in a ramdisk  ^_^
>
> (Of course 256 MB RAM wouldn't be enough to try playing silly games like
> that if you were running Windows 2000, but you're not, you're
> running Linux.
> So surely all of the compiler's temporary files will fit in that amount of
> RAM?)
>
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