Re: Using older machines with PostgreSQL? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tomka Gergely
Subject Re: Using older machines with PostgreSQL?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0310271441230.2615-100000@zeus.gau.hu
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In response to Using older machines with PostgreSQL?  (Paul Ganainm <paulsnewsgroups@hotmail.com>)
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2003-10-27 ragyogó napján Paul Ganainm ezt üzente:

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> Hi all,
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> At home I have a Windows 1.6 GHz Pentium box which I use for accessing
> the internet &c. I have two old machines doing nothing at the moment -
> one is a late 486 (60 MHz) and the other is an early Pentium (75 MHz). I
> have run Linux on both of these machines in the past.
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> I would like to set these older machines up to run PostgreSQL and
> administer the dbs from the Windows box.
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> Are there any issues in doing this that I should be aware of (apart from
> a speed penalty which I expect to have to pay)?

You must watch the memory usage. With 32MB RAM sometimes, very rarely the
kernel killed apache or postmaster. But with 64 megs and ~200 Mbyte swap
must run without trouble.



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Tomka Gergely
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