Well, I part-own a Mac/Linux support company in New Zealand with
several Linux boxes in Prepress and design (in fact, we offer a NT to
Linux Upgrade!)
Our latest system is a Intel Lancewood motherboard with a PIII-550
connected to 70GB Ultra2 RAID.
When you do a /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/md0 on the machine, you get:
Timed cache buffers reads of 144MB/sec
Timed disk reads of 60.32MB/sec
That's a fast motherboard and a fast RAID...
Now, over 100BaseT from a Power Macintosh G4/450 using Appleshare
over IP, we get 9.8MB/sec with Helios Lantest 2.5.2. Yes, that's
MegaBytes...
Copying a 500MB scan to the server finishes in less than a minute.
Our customers are impressed!
I use a modified version of asun214 37b, and it runs VERY well.
Just my input.....
mrad01
At 10:22 PM -0800 28/3/2000, Seth D. Mattinen wrote:
>on 3/28/00 7:45 PM, David Blache at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I rebooted Linux (because I'm such a newbie, I had no idea how to restart
> > afpd and atalkd!), and now the server shows up and allows me to connect. I
> > am playing an mp3 right now and so far so good - it hasn't stopped. :)
>
>If you've got it in your init scripts, just run this as root:
>
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk stop
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start
>
>If it's not at that path, look in your /etc directory for init.d or rc.d,
>and it'll be there somewhere. When you run the script without a start/stop,
>it'll just say "Usage: atalk {start|stop}". That's the beauty of Linux,
>don't have to restart the whole box except for kernel changes. =)
>
> >
> > It says it is using AppleTalk.
> >
> > What are the implications of switching it to TCP instead? Will
>it be harder
> > to access? Will I still use the chooser to get to it? Will it be
> > transparent the way AppleTalk is now?
>
>If you've got TCP/IP set up on the Mac, and on the Linux box, and TCP/IP is
>generally happy everywhere, it should be using IP over AppleTalk first.
>Using IP is just as transparent as using the Chooser. Older versions of
>AppleShare didn't support IP, but all current ones do.
>
>The advantage? It's a lot faster.
>
>--
>Seth D. Mattinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://roller.reno.nv.us/
>PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Everything you want is not everything you need.
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