[ot] Surplus Store goodies

[Ben Pfaff]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> I was using a 233 mhz with 32 ram as router. I don't have no real proof but
> ever since I got ten or more clients behind the box it needed daily reboots. I
> thought it was faulty hardware which it may still be but I put now 128 ram in
> it and it runs smooth again.
> 
> Can somebody tell if there is a limit on how much a small box with 32 ram can
> hold before it starts to choke?

It's more likely faulty hardware.  I use a 166 MHz box as a file
and print server for 14 SGI machines and it never had any trouble
with 32 MB RAM, though due to increasingly heavier usage we
recently upgraded it to 256 MB for better speed (not for
reliability).