Re: New server specs

2006-04-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:42:48PM -0400, George Boudreau wrote: > > > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >George Boudreau wrote these words on 04/13/06 18:42 CST: > > > >> It is fast enough for me and does a full LFS build in well under 2 > >>hours and can render a book in minutes. > > > >I have a 500mh

Re: New server specs

2006-04-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
George Boudreau wrote: > > > Randy McMurchy wrote: >> George Boudreau wrote these words on 04/13/06 18:42 CST: >> >>>It is fast enough for me and does a full LFS build in well under 2 >>> hours and can render a book in minutes. >> >> I have a 500mhz p3 that every hour looks to see if there ar

Re: New server specs

2006-04-13 Thread George Boudreau
Randy McMurchy wrote: George Boudreau wrote these words on 04/13/06 18:42 CST: It is fast enough for me and does a full LFS build in well under 2 hours and can render a book in minutes. I have a 500mhz p3 that every hour looks to see if there are updates to the BLFS and LFS books. If so,

Re: New server specs

2006-04-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
George Boudreau wrote these words on 04/13/06 18:42 CST: >It is fast enough for me and does a full LFS build in well under 2 > hours and can render a book in minutes. I have a 500mhz p3 that every hour looks to see if there are updates to the BLFS and LFS books. If so, it renders. LFS SVN re

Re: New server specs

2006-04-13 Thread George Boudreau
Ken Moffat wrote: But, I won't be surprised if a 3GHz system is not as fast as you think! Sure, the memory (PC3200, or 2700, or DDR2?) is faster than what I guess must be PC100 in the old box, but the cpu will need more clocks per instruction. It will definitely be faster in the short term,

Re: New server specs

2006-04-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:14PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Hi guys, > sorry for the late reply, turns out my postfix config was inadequate once I switched to mutt, but the spam filters only caught me this week :-( > > Obviously no longer sufficient for what LFS needs today. > > 1 GB of

Re: New server specs

2006-04-11 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:14PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > > SCSI vs. SATA. I'm a SCSI fan but I've had lots of good success with > SATA too. Plus sides being that we can get more space for much less money. If going 1U, I recommend SCSI and the best fans you can buy. > As far as CPUs go

RE: New server specs

2006-04-11 Thread Jeremy Herbison
> As far as CPUs go, we have some options. Pentium 4, Pentium D, and Intel > Xeons are my three choices at the moment (I'm still not an AMD fan but > I'll consider it too) as they offer nice amounts of speed for reasonable > prices. The question is if we really need dual CPUs or not. They are > nic

Re: New server specs

2006-04-11 Thread Carsten Gehrke
My $0.02 on the drives: I have somewhere in the neighborhood of two dozen computers in my home office, mostly older generation servers bought on e-Bay. Aside from one SCSI drive that was DOA when I bought it, I have not had any failures, including the used drives. I have had a number of IDE