[Leaplist] Different netbooks ... CPU and GPU limitations (or not) ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

It could execute in memory, and even downloaded as part of the initrd.
I've done that and typically it blows away NFS performance at even GbE.

The TFTP download portion doesn't take long at all.  I used to get RHEL
compressed in under 64MiB (with X) and went from boot to prompt it around
30-45 seconds.  I'm sure TFTP's inefficiency added 10 seconds or so.

Furthermore, the biggest issue with NFS performance on GbE is the frame size.
At 1500 byte frames, you're only going to get maybe 3x performance over
Fast Ethernet.  Getting it into memory is always ideal -- and it can be made just
as immutable as read-only NFS.



----- Original Message ----
From: Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net>

I only wanted the gig-e because the system is running NFS root.  It
certainly isn't routing that much traffic.

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