Redo from start

Still running on the same hardware specs as day 0 but with a slightly different software configuration, just to mess around and see what does good and what does not.

This site is still served from the following configuration:

• Sparcstation 20 motherboard with 2×75mhz CPUs
• 320MB of RAM
• 1×4GB SCSI harddisk

What changed though, is the software and more changes will come. Basicly I moved the majority of stuff from Blastwave to self compiled packages. Not because I wasnt happy with Blastwave but because I want to get the best out of the sparcstation and therefor mess a bit with the compiler flags.

To do this I use a Solaris 9 zone provided to me by PurpleCow. Within this container/zone I use the Sun Studio compiler to create sparcv8 packages with special compile options for my SparcStation 20.  In specific I use the following options:

• CFLAGS=”-fast -xtarget=ss20/71 -xcache=16/32/4:1024/32/1 -xchip=super2 -mt -g -xrestrict -xipo -xprefetch -xpagesize=64K”
• CXXFLAGS=”-fast -xtarget=ss20/71 -xcache=16/32/4:1024/32/1 -xchip=super2 -mt -g -xrestrict -xipo -xprefetch -xpagesize=64K -xdepend”

When you believe there are more or better compile flags, please let me know

So, currently the sparcstation 20 is running the following:

• Apache 2.0
• PHP5 with libgd, libxml and mysql support
• MySQL5 server
• Squid
• Courier-Imap
• Exim4

Needless to say one and the other wont run as speedy as it’d run on a V210 or a T2000 but till this moment I am happy with the performance and what this old thing can do really.

I am constantly looking for new stuff to put on this server and to improve things and will post about it.