Managing a network of UNIX workstations

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <12943 at watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
>In article <4624 at helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs at epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
>>Both the source and object files are stored on the remote NFS server and
>>there never seems to be too much of a network load because of this.
>
>We don't have a problem with network load either.  The compiles and such
>just take twice as long over NFS as doing them right on the local disk.

But that was the original complainant's point; that he was in a
software development environment, where you might want to do
fifty fix-and-compile iterations each day, and having to wait
twice as long would, of course, halve your productivity.

				--Blair
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