Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Some REAL confessions about AMS speed Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 90 18:52:15 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 Actually, if you're running a very large site with AFS and lots of users, and performance is slow, you should consider doing what I've been recommending CMU do for years, without success: Have everyone run AMS with a remote messageserver on one (or a small number of) dedicated messageserver machines. Instead of having every workstation at the site beating on the mail system, you'll have all its fs activity centralized, maybe even on the local disk of the messageserver machine. Using preferences such as AMS_RemoteServer and AMS_RemoteLogin, and the "-S" switch to Messages, you can make this very painless -- it should work just like it does now, only faster. -- NB