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#3 Re: minimum power consuming network setup Posted by endecotp (62.253.xx.xx) on Sat 24 Mar 2007 at 12:57 Paul, My rented virtual server is also a web server. It wouldn't be possible to run those web sites over my cable modem; there isn't enough bandwidth. Another benefit is that I get off-site backups, so if my house burns down (or is burgled) I still have the data on the virtual server. The NSLU2 can run almost any software (albeit slowly), but it doesn't have much RAM. So you need to be careful not to ask too much from it simultaneously, and you need to adjust some settings carefully, e.g. the number of worker processes that Apache spawns, and the amount of shared memory that PostgreSQL uses. I'm not sure what your definition of "multimedia" is. The VIA chipsets include hardware MPEG2 support and the speed of the graphics acceleration doesn't depend on the processor speed. I can certainly watch videos using mplayer without any trouble. I have never tried video editing. Things like GIMP work fine. At one time there was a HOWTO about making your root partition read-only, but it seems to have disappeared. I think that /tmp is in RAM in a default Debian install, isn't it? If not, it's hardly rocket science to add the appropriate line to /etc/fstab. You don't need to worry much about flash writes: all drives do wear levelling and the amount of data that you would have to write to make them fail is phenomenal. (I would suggest not swapping onto a flash drive though, except on the NSLU2.) Flash drives do fail, but so do magnetic disks, so you always need to do backups. Phil.

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