I've seen from time to time folks talking about using a diskless setup, but I'm having problems seeing what their results are like. I just set up an old piece of hardware to see if I could do it (since the spare hard drive I have is VERY noisy). It appears to work as a front-end, but it's slow when skipping ahead or back. This also could be due to the fact that I'm playing back 720x480 on an Athlon 650.
Does anyone have performance data to provide on their diskless setups? If I were to rebuild to a Celeron D 2.5G and add a 878 grabber, would I still be able to use this diskless setup and be happy with performance as both front-end and a diskless backend (streaming to my other backend/database/etc)? For my config's sake, my primary backend is providing the NFS root image, and I'm using the noisy hard drive to provide the etherboot zlilo image to netboot off a PCI NIC (the on-board NIC is too flaky to use). If I don't want swap space or anything else on the hard drive, and I'm running XFCE (stripped debian build) is 256MB enough, or should I keep it at 512MB just to be safe? Or is there a good reason why I should throw swap onto the noisy drive and just hope that the 'hdparm -S' timeout keeps the drive dpun down (with either 256 or 512MB)? Thanks, Norman _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
