Re: [hylafax-users] Questions about Hylafax install & machine speed

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The office network consists of a 3 PCs, connected via a Netgear router, and two network printers.  Two of the PCs have scanners directly attached to them.
> I have an older 233 MHZ pc that I would use to run a Linux distribution such as RH9, Debian or Damn Small Linux (DSL-based on Debian).  
> I have some basic questions for ppl that have been down a similar road:
> 1. Will the 233MHz machine have enough HP to run hylafax + minimal OS services? This is envisioned as a stand alone device.
> 2. Of the three OS mentioned, which one would require the least amount of work to get hylafax to work? The issue I am struggling with is that DSL runs very fast on the 233, and RH I know is kinda slugish, don't know about Debian. Other options?
> 3.The fax load perhaps 3-5 incoming faxes a day (each about 3-5 pages), and perhaps 2-3 outgoing faxes a day, with as many as 20 pages.  Again the question is there enough HP both on the PC send/receive end, as well as the network end? The network bw is 100 GB/sec
> 4. The fax modem is a USR Courier V everything, connected via a serial line. The PC serial port is a 9-pin 'com2' connection that support the typical small subset of modem control lines (e.g. tx/rx/cts/rts/dsr/dcd/ri).  Will this setup work adequately with Hylafax?
> I have installed, used, and did minimal development in many unix systems over the last 20 years, so I am fairly familar with the OS, but I don't know any of them inside and out. 

I don't think the faxing would be a problem,  I've run Hyla on less
powerful machines than that.

This issue is if the server is going to be doing the document conversion
from format X to tiff/fax.  If you fax a large (20+ pages) postscript
document and expect the server to do this lifting it can be quite
resource intensive.


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