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From: Matthew D. <ma...@od...> - 2004-04-20 19:16:46
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:55:47PM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > Steve Yalovitser wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > This may not be the right area to ask the question, but as its hardware > > oriented, here goes... > > > > I've been running Ps2 w/Linux for many days (40)straight and after a while > > I've started manifesting problems w/DVD as well as the HD due to > > overheating/fan issues. > > > > Has anyone run the XBOX as a "server" 24/7 for a long period of time, and > > experienced any heat related issues? Or other failure issues you wouldnt > > find in a typical intel server? > > > > My first xbox has been running 24/7 for about two weeks now, the second one > for just a few days. Although they seem to run warm, perhaps a bit more > than your average pc, they seem to handle it quite well. > > My intention is to build a small cluster attached to my home lan for heavy > compile sessions via distcc and ccache on gentoo. So far, with the addition > of the second xbox, things are really going faster... root@xbox:~# uptime 15:09:37 up 29 days, 20:53, 1 user, load average: 0.99, 0.97, 0.97 So far so good, and I use it mainly as a frontend for MythTV and as a distributed.net node. -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org 15:12:12 up 5 days, 20:05, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.05 |