September 20, 2004

Remote systems & hardware

I've discovered an issue with my understanding of computers (or, with practical implementation of knowledge).

If I ask a local system (I'm working on it directly) to do 15 intensive things at once, and it slows down a bit, that's perfectly fine with me.

If I'm working on a remote system (usually over SSH) and doing a lot of stuff, I expect it to handle it flawlessly. I get annoyed when disk IO slows down if I'm tarring up a directory onto the same volume, running torrents, FTPing files to/from the drive, and compiling. I treat remote systems as "infinite hardware" - except they're not.

-=Russ=-

Posted by rgraves at September 20, 2004 02:29 AM
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That is interesting, because my initial inclination would be to the opposite..

Posted by: Matt Heerema at September 20, 2004 09:59 AM
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