Maybe it's not of any real value to give my experience running Suns diskless with AFS from an apples-apples point of view. But from a administrative or performance point of view it may be interesting... We are running some Sun SLCs (16 MB RAM, diskless) with a 6 MB AFS ram-cache. So they have only 10 MB RAM over after AFS fires up. We are also running X11R5 not OpenWindows. We boot the machines up the normal "diskless" way. Fire up AFS, where we store X11 and homedirs, and fire up the X server and run them further as X Terminals. They "only" have 16 MB of swap, which by the way they NEVER touch if you don't run any local clients. The 6 MB AFS cache fills up to about 4.8 MB full of X11 stuff. Those "puppies" really "hum" as X Terminals, and I haven't noticed any administrative burden switching from a diskless, CPU bound NFS hog to a lean-mean fighting machine with AFS and a screaming X performance. Tim Ehrhart
