Re: [9fans] Experiences with remote connections?

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

>> 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

I set up a 200 MB partition for cfs; it seems to be helping
a bit. rio on the cpu server works okay too. I'll just have
to see which I end up using more.
Thanks!


John