distortedrumble
all up in yo grill!
if i was building a comp for people to download my music directly from me of my website....how much ram should i put in that comp?
dgatwood
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Well, you don't specify an OS, so I'm going to assume you'll be running a server-oriented OS, e.g. Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD, or similar.
In that case, I'd suggest a minimum of 512M of RAM. The more RAM, the more disk caching the OS can do behind the back of the web server software. If you're planning to do a lot of dynamic content with PHP or something, make it a gig, but otherwise, 512M is plenty.
Of course, to some extent, I'm assuming that this server will eventually serve web pages as well as music, and that most of that won't involve constantly shoving large files. If all you are planning on ever doing is shoving a handful of large files, I used to easily push 2-3Mbps serving raw MkLinux CD images with a file server running on a Quadra 650 under NetBSD with something like 64M of RAM. (For comparison purposes, that's roughly equivalent to a 486 DX/2 running at 66 MHz, IIRC.)
In other words, it depends.
In that case, I'd suggest a minimum of 512M of RAM. The more RAM, the more disk caching the OS can do behind the back of the web server software. If you're planning to do a lot of dynamic content with PHP or something, make it a gig, but otherwise, 512M is plenty.
Of course, to some extent, I'm assuming that this server will eventually serve web pages as well as music, and that most of that won't involve constantly shoving large files. If all you are planning on ever doing is shoving a handful of large files, I used to easily push 2-3Mbps serving raw MkLinux CD images with a file server running on a Quadra 650 under NetBSD with something like 64M of RAM. (For comparison purposes, that's roughly equivalent to a 486 DX/2 running at 66 MHz, IIRC.)
In other words, it depends.
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TimOBrien
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Here's the formula for buying RAM:
Every damned bit you can afford.
Every damned bit you can afford.
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gordone
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What kind of connection does your server have to the internet? This is (IMHO) just as important as the server itself. I run a test/development server off of my Dell 4550, XP Home, Apache, 512MB RAM, 2.53ghz CPU, yada yada yada, and I'm pretty sure the bottleneck is my DSL connection. It works ok for normal webpages (including some PHP and mySQL), but it is real slow for big files (big JPG files from my digital camera for example). Something to keep in mind!
distortedrumble
all up in yo grill!
it'll be xp pro probably, running cable. thanks I already did some research on that so i got most of what i need