I've just done this on a potato system. It works just fine. Well, I've build perl and debhelper from woody to meet the build depencies. You can get bleeding edge software with debian! Just build it from debian source packages and they integrate well with the packaging system.
As we all know, webservers (for static pages) under linux don't need much CPU power, so pentium processors are widely used. To make the server fast, nervertheless, linux needs quite much RAM (for the filesystem caching).
The problem I see is, pentium bords do not support (RAM) caching for more than 64MB. What do you nerds think, may a webserver based on linux running on a pentium be faster with, say, 128MB of RAM, than with the maximum that can be chached? I mean, is there a performance gain when doubling the amount of RAM at cost of the RAM caching??
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> ... what happens to those users who need apache 2 functionality on mission critical servers?
/etc/apt/sources.list
echo deb-src http://kabuki.sfarc.net/apache2 / >>
apt-get -b source apache2
dpkg -i *.deb
I've just done this on a potato system. It works just fine. Well, I've build perl and debhelper from woody to meet the build depencies. You can get bleeding edge software with debian! Just build it from debian source packages and they integrate well with the packaging system.
-Jade.
As we all know, webservers (for static pages) under linux don't need much CPU power, so pentium processors are widely used. To make the server fast, nervertheless, linux needs quite much RAM (for the filesystem caching).
The problem I see is, pentium bords do not support (RAM) caching for more than 64MB. What do you nerds think, may a webserver based on linux running on a pentium be faster with, say, 128MB of RAM, than with the maximum that can be chached? I mean, is there a performance gain when doubling the amount of RAM at cost of the RAM caching??
-phaethon.