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From: [e-mail] (John Crookshank)
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Subject: Re: screen savers
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on 10-Sep-95 13:37:09, Jeric ([e-mail]) Emailed:

>>
>>
>>On Sat, 9 Sep 1995, Ernie Wright wrote:
>>> A friend told me a story about an Alpha used exclusively as a network
>>> server.  Out of the box, it was set up to use one of the cool 3D
>>> OpenGL screen savers with the real-time texture mapping. (SNIP>


>     Just as an aside, does it make sense to run an ALPHA as a server?
>    I thought that the major attributes of a server should be good through-
>    put and fast disk access--- couldn't a beefy P100 do the same thing
>     (data transfer) just as well and a lot cheaper?

Well, every "login" is a separate task, so the faster the system, the less
it would bog down when multiple users would access it. Of course, if you
just had a few users, a cheap Pentium would be nice. Probably even less,
like a 486, depending again on the number of users.

If our Raptor3 is busy rendering, Lightwave takes a LOT of the CPU cycles,
so it gets sluggish when I FTP files to/from it when LW is rendering.
Lightwave gets CPU preference, so the rendering doesn't suffer, but the
ethernet access does. Were we actually using this as a server, this would
be unacceptable. We would then just get a cheap box and dedicate it as a
server in that case.

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