In article <20051013234456.3ef312c8@inishowen> you wrote:
> I have a 300MHz PowerPC box here ( running AIX ) which doesn't get
> anywhere near breaking into sweat with 5 clients building NetBSD
> releases at the same time entirely via NFS so I guess you won't even
> need a modern PC to serve 20-30 diskless clients.

I wonder how to find out the sweat level of such a machine,
for both disk and network I/O. 

Are the drops in "netstat -d -w 1" and the MB/s in "iostat -x -w 1" the 
numbers to monitor? With the latter one compared to the max. throughput 
that the disk/bus can do?


 - Hubert