[ic] System Requirements

Dan Browning interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Thu May 30 00:39:02 2002


At 09:26 PM 5/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>     The documentation says at least 400 MHz Pent II and 128 Meg RAM.
>Just for experimentation and education purposes (no real sales
>transactions)
>what would be considered the absolute minimum system ?  Also any idea
>above the OS (Linux) how much HF space would anyone guestimate is
>required ?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Jon

Well, lets see, absolute minimum...  the Linux kernel should run on a 386 
16 Mhz w/ 8 mb ram or so.  Throw in a 1200 baud modem and if you have a lot 
of swap space and a couple millennia of spare time, you should do great!

On a more serious note, lots of RAM, fast disks, and milk will do you 
good.  As far as HDD space, the daemon directory takes approx 12 mb, and 
the standard catalog starts out at 2mb but grows as session information is 
stored (and also shrinks as you "expire" sessions).

Like was mentioned, you can do a development system with meazly mhz as long 
as your OS, HTTPD, and at least one IC daemon fit in RAM at one 
time.  Everyone has a different tolerance for pain^H^H^H^H wait time, 
however. :-)


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