[OZAPRS] APRS Advice

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

On 05/04/2009, at 6:50 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
>
> P3? I run a P3 for the bbs and aprs node, with 6 radio ports plus  
> internet links. But that is under Linux :-)

yeah, I was going to say. - P3 sounds like a bit of overkill for an  
Igate ;)  The old Vk1 Igate (i.e. back when I lived in Vk1 ;) ) was a  
K6-2-300 with 128mb ram.. And that was running a TCP/Modem BBS at the  
same time..  Looking at the VMware management console for second.aprs,  
it's currently pulling averaging 10mhz of the host CPU, so you'd  
expect an igate (which would be doing 1/100th the traffic at most?) to  
use even less ;)

But as you say, that's under linux...  Once you add the gooey overhead  
of windows, you'd want a P3 I guess..  Can't say I'd ever run anything  
serious on windows.. It seems to want a reboot every time you pass  
wind :)

--DG
(Who's giggling like a schoolgirl after digging in the shed for an  
esata cable this afternoon, and found his old stallion 'EasyIO' 8-port  
ISA-slot serial card, complete with it's huge 50+-pin D-connector and  
pigtails to DB25's :) )

Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
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  We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
  and tore the world asunder

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