On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 07/06/2012 04:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Phong X Nguyen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> On 6 Jul 2012, at 1516, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: >> >> >>>> On my VM, W7 is still half as fast as XP and ten times less >>>> stable -- pretty much matches what I see in the field. >>>> And Lotus Approach, which I use for my business accounting, >>>> runs worse on W7 than it runs on Wine. >>>> >>> Can I get more details about your issues? I routinely run Windows 7 in >>> VMs (generally VMWare) and get near-native speed for anything except >>> GPU-bound tasks. It's also rock-solid stable. So I'm curious about your >>> problems you mention you keep having. >>> >>> My general experience (for a fairly broad spectrum of users) is for most >>> relatively-recent hardware (e.g. >2GB RAM, half-decent IGP, etc.) Windows 7 >>> is as-fast, faster and a lot more productive than XP (the last due to >>> general UI improvements). >> >> >> Don't forget that Todd is using "dump" and "restore" for backup. I >> find them.... grossly inefficient, and rely on separate cheap media >> with "rsync" and "rsnapshot" for much faster, more efficient backups >> and recommend them highly. If you need to preserve SELinux data, >> Amanda or Zmanda with "star" also works well, and again, is much more >> efficient than dump and restore. >> > > > $ df /dev/sda1 > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 495844 134640 335604 29% /boot > > I backup the above in 1 hr, 12 min. How are your numbers? This is over what, DSL to a remote server? That's only 31 KBytes per second! The only thing I do that's comparable right now is rsync the SL 6.x repostories to an internal mirror (for use by "mock" package building). Takes a minute or two to verify 20 Gig of local material, then it's bandwidth limited by my local ISP to roughly 200 KBytes/second for files that have changed. tar and star for Amanda based backup to tape is mostly limited by network, or hard drive, bandwidth. I thought you were running into hard drive limites. 31 KBytes/second indicates something else is going on. Is your XP host infected and spewing spam or malware, eating your network bandwidth? Can you put a network monitor in place and look? For rsync based systems,