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From: ndd@duke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: diskful vs diskless suns? (was Mixing vaxen and suns on NFS)
Message-ID: <9408@duke.duke.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 09:04:34 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 27 09:04:34 1987
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References: <669@kulcs.UUCP> <895@basser.oz> <1588@psivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ndd@duke.UUCP (Ned D. Danieley)
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In article <1588@psivax.UUCP> woof@psivax.UUCP (Hal Schloss) writes:
>
>... Each Sun has a very small disk attached
>to it with the minimum needed to boot UNIX and get NFS up on the air. They
>each have a small /tmp filesystem and a reasonably sized swap area. These
>are intended to speed up processing on the Suns...
>-- 
>		Hal Schloss
>		Pacesetter Systems Inc.
> {sdcrdcf|ttidca|scgvaxd|nrcvax|jplpro|hoptoad|csun|quad1|
>  bellcore|logico|rdlvax|ihnp4}! psivax!woof

This brings up an interesting question: is it faster to swap locally on
one of Sun's 70 Meg disks over a SCSI interface, or over ethernet?
I realize that this will depend on how loaded the ethernet and the
server(s) are; does anyone have any ballpark figures?

Ned Danieley
ndd@duke