>> 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
