>>>on my big quad box
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>>Call it what you like. You do tend to slip this one in to your messages quite a lot.
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>Well, I am proud of my toy. Did I mention the 2Gb of RAM (swap file? What swap file?) and the striped RAID? :-)
Better have a swap file, even with all that RAM, Bucko! The swap file is used for more than just managing the active process memory, like a number of IPC mechanism which use the swap file to ensure a degree of safety while awaiting receipt.
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>> Non-Softies obviously are not able to access such large toys and have to >make do with your single processor rubbish (usually).
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>I used to think I had the hot setup, until I was drinking a pint with a tester over in the Windows group. He was telling me about his half-million US$ Unisys 32 proc box with an obscene amount of RAM, and Unisys just
gave it to them (wanting to make sure the box worked with WinXP and all).
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Plenty of relatively inexpensive boxes are easily available that support 2 or 4 CPUs - the low-end Dell server, for example, will accept a second processor, given the restriction that both CPUs are identical - same processor model, clock speed, and version stepping. I have several older PII/PIII boxes based on the SuperMicro and Asus dual-processor motherboards that began life with a single CPU, and got a second processor and additional RAM as an alternative to buying a whole new system. If you consider yourself a hobbyist and do all the work yourself, it's a useful upgrade path running an NT-derived or Linux kernel support SMP, it's worthwhile to start with a board with the ability for a send CPU to be added.
>>You know what they say about men who have big quad boxes
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They have more money than guys squeking by on 8MHz ATs with 8MB of RAM?
>It's not feeling so big after finding out what the Windows group gets to play with.
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What kind of toys do they find under the Xmas tree?
>> (and big cars),
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>Don't own a car.
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Just bought a new one.... < nyah >
>> or big motorcycles for that matter ;)
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>Hey, mine is only 800cc's. I mean, really, it's not like I have anything to compensate for. :-)
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Of course not...you let the guys over 40 worry about that!
>>Glad to hear your MTDLL's are standing up to the beating <s>.
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>Rough job, but somebody's got to test it.
Testing? We don't need no steenking testing!
