[ale] How much can one Linux machine do?

[Geoffrey]

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

> I'll drop another data point as close as possible to that one. 233MHz 
> tower, serving nfs to a mini-network, local desktop apps, postfix email, 
> printer server. Runs fine, stays up normally until I decide to perform 
> some odd sort of surgury.

Two more (point being, you can do so much with so little):

Firewall #1:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 2
model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 75.171
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : yes
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips        : 149.91

  12:02pm  up 230 days,  3:05,  2 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00

# free -m
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:            14         13          0          2          7          3
-/+ buffers/cache:          3         11
Swap:           36          0         35


firewall #2:
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 2
model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 74.539
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : yes
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips        : 146.63

11:54am  up 166 days, 13:18,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00

# free -m
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:            14         12          2          4          4          2
-/+ buffers/cache:          4          9
Swap:           32          0         31

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft