Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3160] Developers Must Play

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 09:56:17AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:16:50AM -0700, Tom Holub wrote:
> > I think a per-frame fork() is insane.  What do you plan to do with it,
> > write a gif for every frame?  In a 90 minute game that's 54000 files, not
> > to mention 54000 fork()'s, and assuming 10k files, 540 megabytes of disk
> > space.  
> 
> Karthik just picked up three 40Gb disks at $USD180 each, and that seems
> like quite a reasonable price.  That's about $USD2.43 worth of disk for
> each 90 minute game.  I think we can afford that.

Can these 40GB disks do sustained 8MB/sec writes for 90 minutes?

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