> The original poster was complaining about having thrown an additional
> 32 megs into a dickless workstation and not seeing much performance
> improvement. Either using -pipe or using a small ramdisk for /tmp
> I'm not quite certain what
> the aversion to a local hard drive in the machine was, but I'm sure
> there's a reason, maybe even a good one.
The main reason why I have no hard drive in my machine is the noise
it makes. I have my machine in my living room and like listening
music. The server is located in another room. Even there I spinn
down the drive afer a timeout of 20s. The new syslogd helped me
to reduce the spin ups significantly (thanks a lot!!).
My machine is one of the famouse 'network computer'. It costs
less than $500 (including software!!!), runs Java and is
easy to use.
Christoph Trautwein
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