Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I have a gateway/firewall/you-name-it server that has just been giving > me performance trouble. I have been running FreeBSD 5x (now 5.3-RC2) > faithfully on it, hoping for better days. Well, the performance just > isn't there (it is a rather old machine with 288MB RAM / P2-333). I put > Gentoo on it and it performed well. However, I now find Gentoo lacking > in several areas. One is that MySQL is not up-to-date (I actually > prefer postgresql), even in the unstable branch. OpenLDAP is not > up-to-date either. I find that several packages are not tested well > either, for instance maildrop, which will gladly fail with a 0x0B (sig > 11) when a filter rule matches [this does NOT happen on FreeBSD]. So, I > don't know what to do to be happy? What exactly were the performance issues you were having with FreeBSD? I've run FreeBSD 4.8-4.10 on a 486 as a gateway box and haven't had any performance problems. You might try the local BSD user's group for help on the FreeBSD end of things: http://www.tcbug.org/ I've also used a stripped down version of Slackware on an old 486 in the past for a gateway/firewall/ssh/dns server. It performed well, was very stable, and had a small footprint that fit comfortably on a 540 MB hard drive and 32 MB RAM. I ran a 2.4 kernel though. -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list