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ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:

>In <1991Apr18.015949.26790@npd.Novell.COM> jlamb@npd.Novell.COM (Jason "Nematode" Lamb) writes:

>>In article <1991Apr17.130557.14349@hubcap.clemson.edu> cballen@hubcap.clemson.edu (charles allen) writes:
>>>> 
>>>I've seen people posting previously that they used a ram drive for the 
>>>swap file.  Wouldn't it be more efficient to tell windows NOT to use a swap
>>>file in the case of a diskless station OR a crammed hard drive, and allow
>>>windows to access 100% of the RAM as RAM? 


>>Only catch is this. You can't tell Windows not to use a swap file. And if it
>>comes down to using a network workstation's resources for swapping, this is
>>the preferred order..... 1) Local Hard Drive.. 2) Local RAM Drive..
>>3) NW386 Server drive.. 4) NW286 Server drive.. 5) Version 1.01 of Windows..

>That's easily dealth with:  create a very small permanent swap file.
>In effect, you're restricting your Windows workspace to real RAM.

>I think the moral of this story is that diskless workstations are a
>case of applying today's technology to yesterday's problems.  Why
>expend expensive network resources to avoid buying cheap winchester
>disks?
>-- 

Some of us have a lot to do with servicing these beasts, and winchester
drives / monitors are the least reliable bits - Unfortunately, removing
the monitor is counter productive, but the fewer spinning bits in a system
the fewer there are to go wrong.

>	ergo@netcom.com 			Isaac Rabinovitch
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