Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] FOSDEM

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 12:18, Stephan Ebelt wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:02:20 Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 18:18, Eric Bollengier wrote:
> > > if you want to see kern in action !
> > >
> > > http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-Bacula.ogg
> >
> > Egads, what a horror!  :-)
> >
> > Every time I do a live demo, something goes wrong.  What I forgot was
> > that in a certain sense, my whole presentation was a live demo because I
> > had to run OpenOffice to display my slides -- it started off very slowly
> > with the SuSE update consuming my whole underpowered machine for about 5
> > minutes :-(
>
> there was nothing wrong. I think you just showed very live and clearly how
> good bacula and OSS in general is. ;-)
>
> What I mean is: SuSE's ZLM + KDE + OpenOffice + apache (with mod_perl) +
> Firefox + bacula (dir, fd, sd, bconsole) + Konsoles + perhaps some other
> KDE applets and daemons...

>
> all on a 256 MByte/700MHz machine with slow IDE disk. That is fantastic
> IMO. :-)

Yes, thanks.  I had the same thought -- it is amazing that so much can 
actually run very productively on a 256MB machine.  

On the other hand, the same thing happened to me this morning while adding the 
WEP key so my grand-daughter could access her email while on vacation.  The 
difference was that in 10 seconds I had removed zmd and eliminated the 
problem 5 minute startup performance problem -- that's the difference between 
being online in front of 200 people or sitting down at home ... :-)

Kern