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- From: tt@thor.acc.Virginia.EDU (Tang Tang)
- Subject: Re: Novell 3.11 as NFS Unix News Server
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.154619.18697@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Reply-To: tt@virginia.edu
- Organization: Academic Computing Center, University of Va.
- References: <1992Dec29.183823.2854@amiserv.chi.il.us> <1992Dec30.202240.13973@novell.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:46:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.202240.13973@novell.com>, keith@novell.com (Keith Brown) writes:
- |>
- |> No. Lots of little files being open and closed rapidly and randomly may
- |> cause some thrashing in the directory cache but I have serious doubts
- |> that any single application could cause a problem here by itself. The
- |> directory cache is optimised for loads that 250 DOS clients running
- |> Windows off of the server might place on it. Handling a UNIX news
- |> server should be a piece of cake.
- |>
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- An Unix news tree have thousands of little files where Windows only
- have hundreds of files. It seems to me that it'll stress the system
- more, not less!
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- Tang
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