[9fans] General Question re Plan9 and wise hardware use

[9fans] General Question re Plan9 and wise hardware use

[Greg Pavelcak]

Suppose you have 2 computers. One has two 1GHz P III's, 512M RAM and fast SCSI
hard drives, and the other has 2.2 GHz P IV,  512MB RAM and ide drives. Both
will run plan9, i.e. hardware, including video, is compatible.

What do you do? ... What do you do?

Greg

Re: [9fans] General Question re Plan9 and wise hardware use

[matt]

I would have the 2.2Ghz as my server and the dual 1Ghz as my terminal

but thats for me working on my own

if i had multiple users it would be the other way round

m

RE: [9fans] General Question re Plan9 and wise hardware use

[boyd, rounin]

> I would have the 2.2Ghz as my server and the dual 1Ghz as my terminal

nah, either way.  'slow' terminals, 'fast' servers.

but yeah, i'd go for the faster/larger/... server.

all the world is no longer a VAX.

RE: [9fans] General Question re Plan9 and wise hardware use

[matt]

While I agree that for multi-users where one will be cpu-ing to the server and running tasks there that slow terminals makes sense but my experience here as a single user made me make those assertions.

I ran an 800Mhz duron as the server and a 75Mhz Pentium as my diskless terminal.

The server mainly processes mail and serves as a gateway via 9fs to the remote servers via ftpfs & 9fs whereas my terminal runs rio, acme, anti-aliased fonts, multiple vnc windows, faces etc.

the p75 was a bit painful as my terminal. I did try it with cpu-ing to the Duron and running rio there but then the plumbing messed up and some other things messed up with regard to where files were expected to be and I didn't get a great overall improvement.

Swapping them over has solved all of the problems. My server does crawl a bit when I run my spam-deleting script (it only has 64Mb of ram!) but my terminal fair flies along, even in 1280x1024x16.

m