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From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Managing a network of UNIX workstations
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Date: 15 Jan 90 04:09:43 GMT
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In article <4624@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
>Both the source and object files are stored on the remote NFS server and
>there never seems to be too much of a network load because of this.

We don't have a problem with network load either.  The compiles and such
just take twice as long over NFS as doing them right on the local disk.

    Local machine: VS3200/16Mb/RD54/Ultrix 3.0
    Server: VAX8600/32Mb/RA8[12]/4.3 BSD with McGill NFS server
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