[SATLUG] OT- C64 for sale

[Daniel J. Givens]

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Geoff wrote:
> The Linux Server (to drag this topic, kicking, scratching, clawing and
> screaming back on-topic) is a PIII 733 w/256 meg of ram and 3 or 400 gig
> of harddrive space, and it's fast enough to keep ahead of the cable
> modem speeds...  *shrug*  how much 'faster' can computing go?

My server is an Athlon 2500+ Barton (1.8 GHz) that I just put another
512MiB of memory in for a total of 1GiB. I don't know how long it's
going to take me to get rid of it. That little box is such a workhorse
running the base OS along with at least one virtual machine all the
time, more when I need them. I call it my server based on its function,
but it's really a little Shuttle barebones I put together. Still, it's
snappy enough for what I need it for, mostly mail and network-based storage.

On both of my systems, I usually see the most slow down from disk I/O.
Sometimes it's the actual reading/writing and others it's at the CPU
because of the controller. My next desktop will have lots of memory and
a nice fat 3ware hardware RAID controller and probably running RAID1+0.
I think that should do nicely to minimize that bottleneck. I do tend to
run a lot of stuff at the same time, so memory tends to get eaten
(stupid firefox) and when I really start moving, the drives will get
bogged down.

If it weren't for my current mobo being filled with memory and no 64-bit
PCI slots, I could comfortably stay on this one for at least a couple
more years. As rare as it is for me to game, when I want to, I know I
can run BF2, BF2142 and most any other game that's out decently to very
nicely. I would like to get at least a dual-core system and new
motherboard so I can take advantage of PCI-E video and RAID controllers.

Daniel

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