>We haven't tried this exactly though we have tried using IMail to a share
>(located on the same computer)
on the same computer to share what??
>and it is really slow.
yes, there's that perforamance issue, too, but I'm first concerned whether
it will even function as he imagines (me not knowing exactly what his
objectives are yet), before thinking about the netwrok file-server vs local
files performance issue.
>Basically most of the
>speed to you get from your filesystem is through intelligent caching by NTFS
>so when you use the share you basically lose that caching and everything is
>about 20% of the speed. Also the CPU load is significant when using shares
>as all data transfer goes through the networking subsystem.
yep, file-level sharing across a network is really slow compare to local
file access.
>I'd be really interested in what happens with this.
I'd be really interested in what it is YOU tried to do and why?
Len
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