Re: Using older machines with PostgreSQL?

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Paul Ganainm wrote:

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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)?
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Should not be any problems. If you can get Linux on Postgres will
run. As with any database memory is important (but then memory is cheap) I
would surgest at least 256Mb more is preferable. Switch X windows off
together with any other system services, Just run ssh (to get into the
machine when all else fails) and postgres. Also you may need to be
carefull as many old machines can't hadle disks larger than 6Gb.
You may wish to stream line everything.

Peter Childs

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