One nice feature of the Debian system is the ability to do a net-installation. In other words you just download a portion of the system (core) and then install the rest of the system from the internet. Since the system can be installed in different configurations you decide what the main configuration is by the application you are performing with the server - be it a web server, file server, workstation, etc. The advantage of the net-install is you only download the pieces of the system you need for your specific configuration without having to download most all of the pieces needed for each possible configuration. In the present configuration I used the system is only using around 200-megs of downloaded files totoal whereas I had downloaded the CD or DVD images I would need to download about 10-Gigs or so of ISO files.... just a little bit of difference.
Of course the down side is I have to use the Internet to install any new parts to the system since I do not have local copies...
I configured the system with a Workstation GUI interface and Standard Install - basic configuration so as to make life a little easier using a GUI (Graphics User Interface) instead of the CLI (Command Line Interface). Given the machine has all sorts of "spare" processing power I did not see any reason not to install the GUI to make life easier in the administration and maintenance departments (grin). Since the machine has a X-Windows GUI and the CLI I can access it either through a remote SSH X-Terminal session or use a SSH Telnet Session to access the CLI and not have to worry someone can "monitor" the access to the server from the Internet.
After the Debian system was loaded I ran the "top" command to see how things stacked up. Here is a snapshot of the information:
Here is the "top" command output for the system:
top - 14:36:04 up 1:21, 6 users, load average: 0.22, 0.19, 0.12
Tasks: 161 total, 2 running, 159 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 1.4%us, 0.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.2%id, 0.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 1.7%us, 1.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 1.4%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.5%id, 0.6%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 3.1%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2076852k total, 574436k used, 1502416k free, 46316k buffers
Swap: 2719736k total, 0k used, 2719736k free, 207656k cached
That is with multiple X-Windows login sessions running on the box (not even breaking a sweat!). I doubt the Quake server will even cause much of a load on this beast. One of the X-Windows session is a remote session to my home workstation which makes configuration work much easier! Gotta love "easy"
The above information means the machine is barely even running - more like "loafing" along! Since the Debian system detects the two Xeon processors as 4 processors I really doubt there will be much load on the system - even if there were 16 quake servers running at the same time on the machine.more to follow.
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