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From: cd5340@mars.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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Subject: Re: report on Sun PC-NFS 3.5
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Date: 28 Mar 91 08:31:52 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.151927.30754@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:
>BTW, that also means the NOVEL server software is pretty
>good, the network I use generally has about 33% CPU load or lower.  Good
>and BAD.  67% CPU is free, but not useable.
>
>Even in Windows, this doesn't help, since the server runs NOVELL
>software ONLY.

Not necessarilly.  In school, before we upgraded NetWare, the server was
non-dedicated.  A user could log-on to it.  We later made the server
dedicated, though, because a user whose program crashed would take the
server with it.  Actually, the server would remain up after the crash,
but when the user pressed <ctrl><alt><del> to reboot his terminal, the
server would reset.  We also couldn't boot the server from its own 
hard disk this way.  We needed netware boot floppies.  Not very good.
Dedicating the server takes away this problem.

Of course, a user being logged in at the server would slow down everyone's
network access.  And the server station was much slower.  It was cheaper
to buy another 386-PC than to leave the server non-dedicated.  If PC's
cost as much as SUNs, I'd say there is a point to the wasted processing
power, but they're not.  Not using 67% of a 386 isn't a big deal, not
using 67% of a SUN 4/??? is a very big (and expensive) deal.
--
David Charlap                   "Invention is the mother of necessity"
cd5340@mars.njit.edu            "Necessity is a mother"
Operators are standing by	"mother!" - Daffy Duck