In article <ct7iel$ia6$1@mawar.singnet.com.sg>, Ronnie Corny wrote:
> I've got a Netra i22 (Dual CPU SSparc 75) with 256MB RAM and 9GB HDD... It's
> now running Solaris 7 Server.
>
> Is Sol7 Server the best for this ancient dinosaur? or is 8 or 9 better?

Solaris 9 would run fine on that box.

> I understand 10 won't work at all with SuperSPARC...

Indeed, the sun4m architecture is not supported by Solaris 10.

> This is just to run some small DNS (BIND) for 8 or 9 hosts servicing minimal
> requests, SMTP (sendmail) and http (apache). Currently, am running a
> linux-based 486PC to host these services.

I have a SPARCserver 5 with 70 Mhz that runs BIND with more than 100
frequently used zones, handles more than 50.000 emails per day, and
serves a dozen domains per HTTP (Apache). It survived even happily
a severe attack where an accidently open relay in our network forwarded
tons of emails through this server which led to a load level > 100.
Even then my shells on that box where still responsive.

(But it took nearly 2 hours today to compile BIND 8.4.6-REL on that box).

Andreas.

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