Subj : A rather general question
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sat Jul 17 2004 01:24 pm

Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT> Hello Roy.

 RT> 15 Jul 04 12:07, you wrote to me:

 RT> Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT>> Lately I've been trying to do stuff with nfs.  It's working out
 RT>> so far,  but there are times when it gets cumbersome.  In kmail,
 RT>> for example,  I will go to enter or leave a given mail folder and
 RT>> the LAN will appear to saturate,  according to what I see on the
 RT>> light on the hub,  and the indications in top on the other end.
 RT>> And it's *slow* at that point.  I may need to find a better
 RT>> approach to this.

 RT>> Samba?

 RT> Why?  You're not the first one to suggest this,  but...

 RT> Why, because, it works, and I have not had any joy with NFS, maybe,
 RT> I just don't understand it, so path of least resistance is to use
 RT> samba which works for me, with minimal hassles

Hm.

But it's a fsck'n _windoze_ protocol!  :-)

I did get past the bad behavior,  mostly by cutting down on the size of the 
data that I was trying to handle,  which if I'm understanding it right had the 
link trying to simultaneously open several thousand files at once...

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