Frank Murphy wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> Am thinking maybe quad core cpu, >> Probably more than you would ever need, burning isn't all that CPU >> intensive. >> I see about 5% burning two DVD at once. >> >>> with possibly 32mb ram. >> Hope that's a typo... You probably want 100-200MB/burner. > > Typo 32gb ram Much more than needed. Even if you are burning a 9GB iso, a machine with "only" 10-12GB will be able to cache the entire iso and never touch the disk while burning. Avoiding disk access is a good thing and can be necessary if you really want to push a lot of data. For example, assuming 16x burning speed (which you will not reach on the entire disc surface) you will need 20MB/s per burner. If you have a lot of burners (16?) you are feeding 320MB/s and this is beyond the speed of a single hard disk or a basic RAID setup. So you will have to cache the entire iso in RAM and with a certain assurance that it will remain in RAM. In that case I'd go for 16GB of RAM, no swap, and the iso copied to a tmpfs filesystem (which is RAM). But if you are not aiming at such extreme scenarios, I bet that running the burning tools from a command line will work perfectly with hardware a lot cheaper than what you are thinking. This looks like a fun project. I'm trying to imagine the noise and the vibrations with 10-16 hi speed burners stacked one upon another. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
