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2 total messages Started by Tom Arnow Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:10

#1017

Author: Tom Arnow
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:10

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We have a network setup with six NeXT. Recently, we added on three external  
hard drives and the system got much slower. The system was set up in such a  
way that many directories are mounted as file systems. For example,
/LocalLibrary 
/NextDeveloper
/NextLibrary/Literature
/NextLibrary/Documentation
/NextLibrary/References
/LocalApps
/usr/spool/mail
and various /clients 
are all mounted in this way. 
Could this contribute to the slow down?

Thank you
Tom Arnow

Re: SPEED!

#1020

Author: M Carling
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:51

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In article <1992Aug21.211037.19297@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>  
tom@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Tom Arnow) writes:
> We have a network setup with six NeXT. Recently, we added on three  
external  
> hard drives and the system got much slower. The system was set up in  
such a  
> way that many directories are mounted as file systems. For example,
> /LocalLibrary 
> /NextDeveloper
> /NextLibrary/Literature
> /NextLibrary/Documentation
> /NextLibrary/References
> /LocalApps
> /usr/spool/mail
> and various /clients 
> are all mounted in this way. 
> Could this contribute to the slow down?

Yes. It could. You don't say how your network is configured i.e. what is  
serving what. I take it that "various /clients" means that you are  
NetBooting. If so, this is likely your performance problem. NeXT only  
supports NetBooting under temporary circumstances for performance and  
security reasons. If you insist on NetBooting, put copious ram in the  
NetBoot clients.

For reasons unrelated to performance, I would recommend establishing  
/NetApps and /NetLibrary on your fileserver and leaving /LocalApps and  
/LocalLibrary local.

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
--
I believe George Bush, Anita Hill, and Pinocchio.

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