The Mini Linux PC the Size of a Wall Plug

[SAL-e]

[citation][nom]astroturtle[/nom]I have my new file server/dev box! Yaay Sheeva![/citation]
Cool!
Did you get some performance counters running?
How many simultaneous connections can support?

 

[astroturtle]

Hi. Short on time so just I ran a couple of quickie benchmarks:

dBench - Throughput 8.25256 MB/sec 100 procs

TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 0 AF_INET : demo
Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand
Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv
Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % U us/KB us/KB
87380 16384 16384 10.02 963.13 99.90 -1.00 8.497 -1.000

 

[SAL-e]

[citation][nom]astroturtle[/nom]Hi. Short on time so just I ran a couple of quickie benchmarks:dBench - Throughput 8.25256 MB/sec 100 procs[/citation]
Thanks
It's better then I was expecting. This gadget could be excellent torrent server or music server. Even SDTV streaming. Definitely I am going to get one to play with.

 

[astroturtle]

Awesome! It's pretty nifty as a web server too:

Server Software: Apache/2.2.11
Server Hostname: localhost
Server Port: 80

Document Path: /
Document Length: 8031 bytes

Concurrency Level: 1000
Time taken for tests: 21.525 seconds
Complete requests: 10000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 83495041 bytes
HTML transferred: 80334093 bytes
Requests per second: 464.59 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 2152.457 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 2.152 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 3788.14 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 288 1931.9 13 21130
Processing: 79 665 2239.6 238 21321
Waiting: 20 641 2230.3 228 21071
Total: 165 952 3170.4 262 21469

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 262
66% 290
75% 299
80% 305
90% 515
95% 3252
98% 11018
99% 21352
100% 21469 (longest request)

 

[Guest]

I had the Sheeva Plug for about 2 weeks now and it works great. I have an external WD 360G HDD connected via USB. Its running all my server functions and takes about 1/10 of the power.

I have performance and power usage numbers for anyone interested:

http://computingplugs.com/index.php/SheevaPlug_Performance

 

[Guest]

could this be used as an entertainment hub to connect to my tv to surf the net and run netflix movies and such?

 

[SAL-e]

[citation][nom]jace[/nom]could tpetflix movies and such?[/citation]
No. It can't do this. It's only good as headless server. In other words don't have a video output.

 

[Guest]

Mine runs tor, squid, dansguardian, samba, NFS, sshd (naturally), transparent proxy (iptables rule so the kids cannot by pass the proxy, 6in4 tunnel (sixxs), dns, dhcp, some other stuff I've forgotten about

Added an eSATA 1TB disk and it flies. Also has a 100GB usb disk as a backup for my photos - rsync's them once a week. 4 watts + whatever the external drives use. Tons of ram and cpu left over...