Re: [hylafax-users] Questions about Hylafax install & machine speed

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > So if I use the client to send a 20 page MSWord document to the 
> > server, the server performs a transformation to tiff/fax format. Would 
> > you say the conversion would take 2-3 minutes? 5-10 minutes? more? 
> > with the 233 mhz machine?  (I also presume that if the conversion 
> > process is preempted by a incoming fax, the outgoing service will 
> > resume and successfully complete after the incoming fax is received?).
> Years ago I ran HylaFAX on a P-75 (yes, 75 MHz) laptop for a customer.  
> It was a bit slow, but faxing went fine, and I would be very surprised 
> if a 20-page document would have taken more than 2-3 minutes to prepare 
> before sending.

Yep.  I'd be primarily concerned about RAM.  If the document contains
complex figures like 3D pie charts with a color gradient or just lots of
photo like images then ghostscript can get pretty big.  If you go into
swapping like crazy, especially on a really low end machine, you'll have
problems.   In this case it'll work until a user attempts to send
something ridiculous;  maybe you can use ulimits or something to just
have the renderer konk out if it gets larger then a certain size... but
hardware is cheap.  

I suppose it also depends on how intelligent/responsible your users are.
Mine include people whose job title starts with a "C" and have less than
four letters - they usually don't have any idea what they are doing. :)


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