Re: [9fans] Experiences with remote connections?

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

> ramfs seems to improve lc by about a second
> or two. Still far from what I'd consider acceptable,
> which is unfortunate; once a program is loaded,
> it runs very nicely and responsively. Maybe it
> would be more feasible simply to boot the terminal
> from its own disk, then import my mailbox and
> mount my fileserver to /n/csplan9 so I can access
> my files.

mc is accessing all sorts of odd files that i'd
forgotten about (it reads files in /lib/font to
figure out string widths to insert tabs correctly
to make the columns line up).  try just comparing
ls with and without the ramfs -- that should be
more representative of what cfs can do.

i've booted over a few hundred miles before
and also over an early cable modem (28.8k up
via phone line, 1M down via cable) and it was
okay once cfs got going.  the real test is to make
a cache partition and try cfs directly.

russ