On 09/06/2014 04:48 PM, jdd wrote:
using usb hubs is not a good idea, there are shared bandwith and often probably collisions of sort of, because the write can be incredibly slow, or device not working at all.
LOL! Its always a trade off. In the limiting case a couple of dozen hubs and set up all 40 to run in parallel, the go out, have dinner, see a movie, spend the evening with your significant other, and come back the next day. It beats hanging around doing the swap-restart cycle over and over. You have to figure out not just elapsed/clock time but the time you spend doing and waiting. Personally I prefer going off and doing something else, even if its only reading a book or cooking a meal, and letting the 'incredibly slow' stuff grind through, to sitting at the terminal waiting, waiting, and doing the swap-restart step and repeat one by one, even if that does each unit faster. And it may be that the elapsed time for 4 in parallel, or 7, 8, 10 in parallel is the same as the elapsed time one at a time, but doing the setup all at once saves you time. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org