On 07/06/2012 09:20 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 07/06/2012 04:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Phong X Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
On 6 Jul 2012, at 1516, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On my VM, W7 is still half as fast as XP and ten times less
stable -- pretty much matches what I see in the field.
And Lotus Approach, which I use for my business accounting,
runs worse on W7 than it runs on Wine.
Can I get more details about your issues? I routinely run Windows 7 in
VMs (generally VMWare) and get near-native speed for anything except
GPU-bound tasks. It's also rock-solid stable. So I'm curious about your
problems you mention you keep having.
My general experience (for a fairly broad spectrum of users) is for most
relatively-recent hardware (e.g. >2GB RAM, half-decent IGP, etc.) Windows 7
is as-fast, faster and a lot more productive than XP (the last due to
general UI improvements).
Don't forget that Todd is using "dump" and "restore" for backup. I
find them.... grossly inefficient, and rely on separate cheap media
with "rsync" and "rsnapshot" for much faster, more efficient backups
and recommend them highly. If you need to preserve SELinux data,
Amanda or Zmanda with "star" also works well, and again, is much more
efficient than dump and restore.
$ df /dev/sda1
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 495844 134640 335604 29% /boot
I backup the above in 1 hr, 12 min. How are your numbers?
This is over what, DSL to a remote server? That's only 31 KBytes per
second! The only thing I do that's comparable right now is rsync the
SL 6.x repostories to an internal mirror (for use by "mock" package
building). Takes a minute or two to verify 20 Gig of local material,
then it's bandwidth limited by my local ISP to roughly 200
KBytes/second for files that have changed.
tar and star for Amanda based backup to tape is mostly limited by
network, or hard drive, bandwidth. I thought you were running into
hard drive limites. 31 KBytes/second indicates something else is going
on. Is your XP host infected and spewing spam or malware, eating your
network bandwidth? Can you put a network monitor in place and look?
For rsync based systems,
Ooops. Gave you the wrong partition. Should have been:
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/luks-xx 946513204 286868552 611564524 32% /
