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Yawl as of January 2009

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(How geeky is it that I blog pictures of my computers?)

Continuing the 'home sick during a snowstorm' thread, today I set up a couple machines in Chez Geek for ripping and tackled my backlog of CD's from my great cd un-casing.

The trick here was to get enough machines running so that I was always ripping music, but not getting too nutty running around to different consoles.

After some fiddling, I got 2 grip processes running on 'yawl' - one on the external USB cdrw drive, the other on the internal generic ATA drive. The external one ran the fastest, ripping at around 6x times on average.

I also ran a grip process on 'algol', my laptop. I configured up X so I could display the 3 grip sessions back to algol's screen, so had a view into how all 3 ripping sessions were running, and settled in to feed cd's.

All in all it worked pretty well. A cd change happened every 4-6 minutes. If I hung around in the room, I could flip CD's pretty quickly as they came up for changeout. As it was, I kept wandering aorund in the house, so there were times I'd come back and all 3 drives were gaping open, the rippers idle, and the feeling that somewhere a machine was going "Well? Any more?"

Total disk space consumed is somewhere in the 2-3 gig range, perhaps 40 albums ripped. 'yawl's load average hovered in the 4-4.5 range, and seemed to take just fine to everything I was demanding of it.

I'm only about 1/4 of the way through my whole CD collection. I think next ripping job will involve 2 more machines with better CDrom drives, and then I can really get in the groove.

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Category: Geekitude

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