[nylug-talk] Slim home server for samba and subversion ( and possibly IMAP)

[Chris Knadle]

On Friday 09 May 2008, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2008, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > Chris Knadle wrote:
> > > I had half written a post back concerning the poor GigE NAS device
> > > performance.  [In practice I see limits of 14 MB/sec on an embedded
> > > GigE NAS vs 40+MB/sec GigE transfer between a laptop + desktop.]
> >
> > The Intel X-Scale ARM-based IXP embedded microcontrollers are often used
> > without their proprietary, Network Processing Engine (NPE) firmware in
> > many devices.  If they were just doing network, with the NPE, then
> > they'd be okay.  But they are also doing storage and application-level
> > serving.  Not good.  ;)
>
> a) IXP is expensive, nobody puts IXP on a 200$ NAS device (with rare
> exceptions, iomega did I think)

   The $90 Linksys NSLU2, runs an IXP processor.  [I'm using two of these with 
Linux on them for DHCP services.]

     $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
     Processor       : XScale-IXP42x Family rev 1 (v5b)
     BogoMIPS        : 131.48
     ...

   But the NSLU2 requires USB-attached storage, thus I wouldn't exactly call 
it a "NAS device" even though that's effectively what it's sold for doing, so 
for the most part I guess I agree with you your statement anyway.  :-P

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us