Bernard, No such assumption, old = slow, was ever made. My conclusions resulted from actual performance studies, working experience, and design critera. atftp has specific constructs designed to support larger numbers of concurrent tftp requests; my actual experiences prior to Intel and existing public field reports also support these conclusions.
-- David N. Lombard My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation. >-----Original Message----- >From: Bernard Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:57 AM >To: Lombard, David N; [email protected] >Subject: RE: [Oscar-devel] FW: README.RHEL.txt edits? > >Hi David: > >I think the concern was performance, so if you (or somebody else) can come >up with some numbers that would help with the decision. > >Personally though, the version that OSCAR ships with, is quite old - maybe >it is na�ve to assume that old = slow though. > >Cheers, > >Bernard > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Lombard, David N [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:45 >> To: Bernard Li; [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [Oscar-devel] FW: README.RHEL.txt edits? >> >> This is a question I raised recently. It is my contention >> that the current default TFTP servers provided with most >> distros is perfectly sufficient for most OSCAR installations. >> If a higher-performance version is needed, atftp is the >> correct choice, not tftp-hpa, and certainly not as a default by OSCAR. >> >> -- >> David N. Lombard >> >> My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation. >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:oscar-devel- >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Li >> >Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:17 AM >> >To: [email protected] >> >Subject: [Oscar-devel] FW: README.RHEL.txt edits? >> > >> >Hey guys: >> > >> >Is this right? Should we remove this step in the README? >> > >> >Which distribution (update version) does not include tftp-server by >> >default? >> > >> >Cheers, >> > >> >Bernard >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Angel de Vicente [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:30 >> >> To: Bernard Li >> >> Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] RHE4 plus package modifications? >> >> >> >> Hi Bernard, >> >> >> >> yes, it is clearer, althoug in my case I didn't have to do >> step A3, >> >> oscar automatically removed the pre-installed tftp and >> installed its >> >> own, so I just skipped this step as well. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Angel de Vicente >> >> >> >> Bernard Li writes: >> >> > Hi Angel: >> >> > >> >> > We have updated the README for RHEL3, please take a >> look and see >> >> if it > is clearer now from your experience: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/oscar/branches/branch-4- >> >> 1/README.R >> >> > HEL.txt >> >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > >> >> > Bernard >> >> > >> >> > > -----Original Message----- >> >> > > From: Angel de Vicente [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: >> >> Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:59 > > To: Bernard Li > > Cc: >> >> [email protected] > > Subject: RE: >> >> [Oscar-users] RHE4 plus package modifications? >> >> > > >> >> > > Hi, >> >> > > >> >> > > Bernard Li writes: >> >> > > > Hi Angel: >> >> > > > >> >> > > > > I just went through an installation of OSCAR 4.0 >> in a > > >> >> cluster > > of RHE3 update 3 WS machines, and it all went >> > > fine >> >> after a > > few misunderstandings with the > >> >> > documentation, but anyway, all > > is working now. >> >> > > > >> >> > > > If you can let us know where the documentation is >> lacking, > >> >> > we can > improve it. >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > Well, I was installing on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 >> >> (WS) > > Update 3, so perhaps the AS version is different... >> >> > > >> >> > > * The step about Initrd and elilo.conf in page 14 of the > > >> >> manual didn't apply to >> >> > > me. At the beginning I trid to change this to reflect my >> >> > > grub loader, etc. but >> >> > > no chance, what I had to do was simply skip this section. >> >> > > >> >> > > * The same for the step about systemconfig.conf also >> in page 14 >> >> > > > > * In page 15, the step about the tftp-server was >> not for me, >> >> > > either. It looks >> >> > > like OSCAR already uninstalls a version of tftp and >> >> > > installs its own, so I >> >> > > skipped this section. >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > So, in my case I guess it would have been better if I >> didn't > >> >> > read the documentation carefully :-) Skipping section >> 3.5 Red > > >> >> Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (AS) Notes would almost have worked > > >> >> (except for the point about mysql-server, which I had to apply). >> >> > > >> >> > > Anyway, once I learned about these deviations from the >> >> > > documentation, it all went very well. >> >> > > >> >> > > Thanks, >> >> > > Angel de Vicente >> >> > > -- >> >> > > ---------------------------------- >> >> > > http://www.iac.es/galeria/angelv/ > > > > PostDoc Software >> >> Support > > Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias > > > > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------- >> >> http://www.iac.es/galeria/angelv/ >> >> >> >> PostDoc Software Support >> >> Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >------------------------------------------------------- >> >SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid >> >reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real >> users. >> >Discover which products truly live up to the hype. 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