Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:11964 comp.sys.novell:1307 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!logitek!sph From: sph@logitek.co.uk (Stephen Hope) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Windows on diskless workstations Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 16:59:34 GMT References: <8621@crash.cts.com> <1991Apr17.130557.14349@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1991Apr18.015949.26790@npd.Novell.COM> <1991Apr20.034704.28236@netcom.COM> Organization: Logitek Plc. Lines: 37 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 > netcom!ergo@apple.com Silicon Valley, CA > {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo > "You might well think that... I couldn't possibly comment."