<div dir="ltr">I run a firewall off of a 4 GB USB dirve. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It isn't just Exchange.<br>
Zimbra used to require 1G of RAM.<br>
Then 1.5G<br>
Then 2G<br>
now the current release has 8G as the minimum required (not true, but ...)<br>
<br>
Back in the olden days, supported hardware was very restricted for Linux. When<br>
you only support 5 pieces of hardware, being smaller is easier.<br>
<br>
I'm not trying to say that current OSes aren't bloated, just that it matters<br>
less and less as cheap HW is available. SW dev time is much more expensive than<br>
HW at this level - unless the device is consumer and has 20M installations. I've<br>
done some similar math and found it frustrating how expensive bad software can be.<br>
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On 04/01/2015 02:59 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
> One of the things I learned early in the PC days was that every hardware advance<br>
> to increase resources to help software performance was always followed by<br>
> “enhancements” to the software that took every bit of new resource and begged<br>
> for more.<br>
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> One of my favorites was MS Exchange 2010 that decided you should assign as much<br>
> space to each node of a cluster (i.e. duplicate space) rather than share the<br>
> same SAN space on both nodes as earlier Exchange clusters did. Why “Because<br>
> disk storage has gotten cheap”.<br>
><br>
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