On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Roland Jollivet > <roland.jolli...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 7 October 2012 19:11, Len Shelton <l...@probotix.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > Most people choose Mach3 because they want to have a single box to run >> > their CAD, CAM, & control software on, or they are just afraid of Linux. >> > What is not obvious is that to get it to even be half-way reliable - you >> > have to strip down Windows to bare bones operation and never run any >> > other software on that machine - which completely defeats the purpose. >> > >> > snip.. >> >> Why is that Lcnc users insist on doing everything on one machine? Like >> surfing the net while the machine is running. > > > I always surf the net while the CNC programs are running, I see nothing > wrong with that. > > I play music and watch youtube videos also. >
I was running a buildbot slave for a mysql fork called mariadb http://mariadb.org/ So if you get things right you can run just about anything on the cnc box My main problem would be if uncontrolled the user processes would be running at 100% making it a little unusable as far as a user was concerned, just needed pushing down a little in the priority. Dave Caroline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
