bah! i don't know where they got those from. maybe for video, but for audio the new G2 player works way better on my old P5-100 than the 5.0 player did. i'm listening to the BBC world service c/o broadcast.com and it's using 8% of the CPU and 8 MB of RAM. so it does use more memory, but not outrageously so and it's certainly a worthwhile trade-off for the lower CPU utilization. now i can even build a kernel on the old P5-100 without causing sound drop-outs. very nice.
i have a P5-100 and an ultra 10 sitting next to each other on my desk at work. i use NFS to cart crap back and forth between them and they're on their own ports on a 100base-T switch. with 2.0.x and 2.2.x and the latest userland nfsd (whatever the latest RH 5.2 update was) i got 2 MB/sec pretty consistently going both ways. i didn't tweak read and write block sizes; they're whatever the out-of-the-box default was. now the P5-100 is running RH 6.0, kernel 2.2.5, and knfsd 1.2.2 (also not tweaked) and i get 3 MB/sec going both ways which is faster than i usually get via ftp. if i had a faster cpu and disk on the linux end it would probably be even better. it also seems like knfsd is a lot more responsive for automounting and grabbing lots of small files, but i don't have any numbers to back that up. as a comparison, i get 5-5.5 MB/sec when moving files between two ultra 10's running solaris 2.6 (seagate cheetah drives on both ends).
linux's forte really is as a desktop unix (my friggin' P5-100 is _so_ much more responsive under X on the console than the ultra it isn't funny) and i think even the performance hit of the userland nfsd is outweighed by the performance gains in other respects (mostly X and file caching). it's also true that linux comes with a lot more software prepackaged whereas with most commericial unices you have to spend a week digging up and compiling such basic stuff as perl, python, or even bash.
until knfsd shakes out a bit more i probably wouldn't want to use linux as a really hardcore NFS server (multiple hundreds of clients, heavy load, etc.), but in my experience it's fine in more modest environments and as an NFS client with HP or Sun NFS servers.
sounds an awful lot like those FEBO places they have all around the netherlands. they're basically vending machine restaurants where you can plunk your guilders into the machine and select from cheeseburgers, pizza, and other not-very-appetizing-looking food items. haven't yet been desperately hungry enough to go there yet. the loempia stand on the other side of the markt, OTOH.....mmmmm......loempias......
i've experienced three different fry's stores: palo alto, san jose, and phoenix AZ. the PA and SJ stores lived up to almost every bit of frys' bad rep about their customer service being sadistic at best (my friend made the mistake of trying to pay with an out-of-state check and the PA store. BIG mistake!). at the one in phoenix, OTOH, i've had the best customer service that i've had at any computer or electronics shop anywhere. i've actually had meaningful conversations about linux with staff people at the phoenix store! even so, i always go in to any store like that assuming i'm completely on my own. the pessimist is, after all, the least likely to be disappointed.
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bah! i don't know where they got those from. maybe for video, but for audio the new G2 player works way better on my old P5-100 than the 5.0 player did. i'm listening to the BBC world service c/o broadcast.com and it's using 8% of the CPU and 8 MB of RAM. so it does use more memory, but not outrageously so and it's certainly a worthwhile trade-off for the lower CPU utilization. now i can even build a kernel on the old P5-100 without causing sound drop-outs. very nice.
tim
i have a P5-100 and an ultra 10 sitting next to each other on my desk at work. i use NFS to cart crap back and forth between them and they're on their own ports on a 100base-T switch. with 2.0.x and 2.2.x and the latest userland nfsd (whatever the latest RH 5.2 update was) i got 2 MB/sec pretty consistently going both ways. i didn't tweak read and write block sizes; they're whatever the out-of-the-box default was. now the P5-100 is running RH 6.0, kernel 2.2.5, and knfsd 1.2.2 (also not tweaked) and i get 3 MB/sec going both ways which is faster than i usually get via ftp. if i had a faster cpu and disk on the linux end it would probably be even better. it also seems like knfsd is a lot more responsive for automounting and grabbing lots of small files, but i don't have any numbers to back that up. as a comparison, i get 5-5.5 MB/sec when moving files between two ultra 10's running solaris 2.6 (seagate cheetah drives on both ends).
linux's forte really is as a desktop unix (my friggin' P5-100 is _so_ much more responsive under X on the console than the ultra it isn't funny) and i think even the performance hit of the userland nfsd is outweighed by the performance gains in other respects (mostly X and file caching). it's also true that linux comes with a lot more software prepackaged whereas with most commericial unices you have to spend a week digging up and compiling such basic stuff as perl, python, or even bash.
until knfsd shakes out a bit more i probably wouldn't want to use linux as a really hardcore NFS server (multiple hundreds of clients, heavy load, etc.), but in my experience it's fine in more modest environments and as an NFS client with HP or Sun NFS servers.
tim
sounds an awful lot like those FEBO places they have all around the netherlands. they're basically vending machine restaurants where you can plunk your guilders into the machine and select from cheeseburgers, pizza, and other not-very-appetizing-looking food items. haven't yet been desperately hungry enough to go there yet. the loempia stand on the other side of the markt, OTOH.....mmmmm......loempias......
tim
i've experienced three different fry's stores: palo alto, san jose, and phoenix AZ. the PA and SJ stores lived up to almost every bit of frys' bad rep about their customer service being sadistic at best (my friend made the mistake of trying to pay with an out-of-state check and the PA store. BIG mistake!). at the one in phoenix, OTOH, i've had the best customer service that i've had at any computer or electronics shop anywhere. i've actually had meaningful conversations about linux with staff people at the phoenix store! even so, i always go in to any store like that assuming i'm completely on my own. the pessimist is, after all, the least likely to be disappointed.
tim