Re: Re: MTBF of an XBOX

Matthew Daubenspeck <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:16:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.xbox.hacking
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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


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