<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 27/02/2010, at 11:54 PM, Hamish Moffatt wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 04:11:04PM +1000, Philip Webb wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi David,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I havn't done it, and I havn't heard of anyone who has, but I imagine an <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">EEpc or similar netbook running Linux and Xastir would be cost effective.<br></blockquote><br>That's not exactly without a computer though!<br><br>I would like to be running my igate on my Linksys WRT54GS (running<br>OpenWRT currently). However javAPRS is the preferred gateway software<br>and it's Java. Maybe one of the free JVMs works well enough on MIPS for<br>this to work, but I haven't tried it.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>I'd be running APRSD for an igate? - javaprsd just seems like insane bloat for an igate unless you're made of CPU cycles :)</div><div><br></div><div>second.aprs is one of six VM's on a dual 3.6ghz HT xeon, and is currently using all 256mb of ram allocated to it (granted 90mb of that is cached data, but it's also using 70mb of swap.. hrrm might push the memory up next time a kernel update appears..), and is sitting with a 4.5, 5.28, 9.5 - I'm guessing she just finished the morning updatedb, but even still it usually sits around a load of 2-3.. Although I guess a lot of its CPU usage is in processing the packets to hand off to the connected clients?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm all for java - most of the daemon software I write is java, but there's something just not right about javaprsd..</div><div><br></div><div>--DG</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - <a href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><br>--<br>We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br> We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>We danced among the lightning bolts,<br> and tore the world asunder</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></body></html>