Better plan than ghosting?

[angrysquirrel]

I'm not sure if anyone has tried this yet so I'll share my idea so other people can try it as well.

What I'm thinking of doing is building a Knoppix based LiveCD that comes with d2ol already installed with a node under my email. If I did this all I would need to do to set up a system is burn a cd, boot the computer and pop in the cd. Now as far as I know linux gives better performance than windows in d2ol, plus I could also have it run only what it needs run the kernal, java, d2ol, and connect to the internet to send the files (and maybe smb so I can monitor it with dspy).

I would have to set d2ol to save to the ramdisk and I'm not quite sure how to do this part yet, but I'm going to do a bit of research and experimentation. If anyone has tried this please post what you've found in terms of ease of use and performance.

[Entity_Razer]

Jeff knows someone know as the Linuxguru or something he did this with over 50 CPU's IIRC so give him a PM (jeff)

[[XC]thewildblue]

Just out of interest how do you know linux is better at D2OL compared to windows....I may have to maybe try and setup a linux D2OL.

[angrysquirrel]

Just out of interest how do you know linux is better at D2OL compared to windows....I may have to maybe try and setup a linux D2OL.

I've heard some people saying that, not sure how true it is though. But the fact that I can set it up so it only runs what is needed (no gui, ect) it will have more free memory.

[[XC]thewildblue]

Yeah it may have more free resources but how does this help crunch more cands ?
Hmm I wonder, has anybody actually done a direct comparison between two OS and the same PC.

[[XC] moddolicous]

well, maybe the OS takes advantage of more of A64's goodies, so it produces a little more a day?

[jjcom]

I tryed running Linux (SuSE Linux 9.0 Personal) and then ran Windows. I found they were fairly similar in terms of the amount of work done at the same clock. but the problem I ran into was. I could do only 2.17ghz in Linux and with Windows I could do 2.3ghz. Not really sure why tho, Linux seems alittle more picky I guess

jjcom

[UCmajewski]

Dont know about that squirrel ......... if ur systems are not 100% stable 24/7 and u get a restart you'll lose ur work with an HD you would just lose the candidate that it was working on. I dont know about you guys but sometimes ill have 40+ ready to go which i'd hate to lose. I think there would be some more headaches envolved although I like the idea a lot.... just in the end run an HD installed Linux / windows is more haedache free.