On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:17, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 23:17, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Looking at my testing PPC box with grep-available, we have only about > > > 8GB total Installed-Size. > > > > glibc packages total installed size is only a few dozen megs. However, > > the source builds takes up about 600megs. XFree86, about 1.6gigs. > > glibc's build requirements sound like about 20-30 times installed size, > then. Assuming this holds, and trusting the 8GB figure, gives > 160--240GB. > > That's all of three 100GB IDE disks running in RAID 0. Four disks if for > some reason you want redundancy on your cache. > > Surely no more than $1000, even if you buy from expensive vendors. At > least if it fits in the machine's case. You could do it for $500. Is it > worth it? Not sure. Maybe on real slow archs, like 68K.
So we firstly need to find a real slow arch which also supports 4 new large IDE disks (remember that machines 3 years old tend not to have good support for >32G drives). Then this same arch needs to be slow enough at CPU that it needs a compiler cache, while being fast enough at doing disk IO and running the file system to be able to offer a performance gain. Then of course there's the issue of how many M68K machines you could buy for $1K. Maybe it would be better and easier to just buy a number of machines and divide the load? -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
