Hardware¶
Todo
links on aircon
What should I buy as a server?¶
Depends
http://www.soekris.com/ - small form, firewalls routers etc. Freebsd compatible
beagleboard - low power, single board computer. - hobbyist, aimed at wearable computers etc. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/08/ti-launches-hackable-beagle-board-for-hobbyist-projects.ars
How to determine what hardware is running?
# sysctl -a | grep -i hw.model hw.model: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.90GHz
# sysctl -a | grep -i memory Virtual Memory: (Total: 2161196K, Active 56164K) Real Memory: (Total: 19760K Active 10812K) Shared Virtual Memory: (Total: 6184K Active: 4760K) Shared Real Memory: (Total: 4944K Active: 3668K) Free Memory Pages: 219288K hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376 p1003_1b.memory_protection: 0 p1003_1b.shared_memory_objects: 1
That is usually enough for one day.
#sysctl -ad Will show all measures and a description
biblio¶
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html
read the source¶
ee /usr/src/sys/sys/sysctl.h