[NTLUG:Discuss] Built a big box

[Chris Cox]

As many of you know, I've been building a huge box
for use at home (helps heat the house I suppose).

It's a dual Athlon rig with tons of storage, HW RAID,
dual NICs, etc.

The bad news is that there isn't really a good set
of standards for benchmarking Linux boxes... so nothing
to compare it to.  Also, I'm interested in anything
you would like to see run on it so I can offer feedback.
One of the problems with spending money on HW/SW is the
lack of practical information (some reviews, but nothing
very tangible).

Also, I've included a lot of pricing information.

To save bandwidth you can view at:
http://www.theendlessnow.com/monster.txt

Feel free to send me some mail directly if you have
something you would like to have me try out.
mailto:cjcox at acm.org


Some ideas:
1. SW vs. HW RAID
2. VMWare Win XP benchmark (how fast can a virtual machine go?)
3. Wine-X DirectX 3D benchmark (Mad Onion's or something)