--- title: SLUG date: 2006-06-16 05:57:00.00 -8 tags: posts categories: geeky --- For the past few months I've fought with various issues on my new DHCP/DNS/SMB/HTTP server. I expected a fight, it's a 100Mhz ARM processor with no monitor, keyboard, mouse, or internal hard drive. It's a [SLUG](http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1115416906769&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper). At first, I was using full [Debian install](http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/) which worked really well. It worked so well that I kept adding stuff that I wanted it to do to it until the load on boot was near 6 constantly and I couldn't get bash to load after ssh'ing to it. It was then that I realized that I shouldn't run MySQL, Apache, PHP, Bind, Exim, sshd, Samba, and Bittorrent on a computer slower (barely) than the one I had [ten years ago](http://jokerbone.com/portfolio/oldsites/beginnings/index2.html). I redid it with [SlugOS](http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/SlugOS/HomePage) and have been running tiny packages: thttpd, dnsmasq, that sort of thing. It runs OK but the load is never under 1.0. ![](./r83_location.jpg) Break that off and it runs at the speed it was designed to run - twice as fast as Linksys ships it. This morning I used a nail clipper on the resistor and it came off very easy. ```shell > grant@slug:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : XScale-IXP42x Family rev 1 (v5b) BogoMIPS : 266.24 ``` I've got the SLUG attached to a 500GB IDE drive in a USB enclosure, serving mp3's to itunes, movies to the modded xbox, and acting as a general file repository for backups, and () a web server. The external drive has very quiet fans, the SLUG has none.