Subject: Re: 1.5 Package on 1.5.1?
To: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/09/2001 09:37:09
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:25:02AM -0400, Andy Ball wrote:
> 
> Hello David!
> 
>   DWT> It doesn't take much to compile thttpd.  I run it on
>      > my little Pentium 200 MMX w/96MB.  It's swell.
> 
> That's quite a bit more powerful than the 486 DX2 66MHz with
> 20Mb of RAM that I would like to try it on.  The machine has
> very little disk space (I cobbled it together from stuff we
> had laying around).  It doesn't have a compiler installed,
> but it may be possible for me to build a binary on my home
> machine that could run on the 486. My main problem is likely
> to be that I have no idea how to go about doing this.

I've run Apache with PHP on my VAX 3100m38 with 24MB.  A 486/66 should
be fine for running thttpd or apache.  Just don't load a bunch of extra
modules on Apache, and reduce the number of pre-forked servers as well.


-Andrew