On Thursday 09 December 2004 16:20, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> Martin Spott wrote:
> >Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> >>..willco.  Anyone tried setup a scenery or terrasync server
> >> box on your lan's?
> >
> >Well, I store the whole base package related stuff on my NFS
> > server,
>
> Storing binaries, or the base package, or the world scenery on
> an NFS server (or samba server) should work just fine.  You
> can think about trading local disk space for network bandwidth
> and load speeds.  You could also think about the scenery
> loading thread not needing to do any work spinning the local
> disk drive and waiting for data if the scenery is on a network
> share.  This could be a big factor on an IDE based system.  I
> don't know if this has any actual advantages one way or the
> other necessarily, but it's something to think about if you
> are tweaking performance.
>
> Curt.

All of my FG data, including the Scenery, is held on my server 
and is accessed via samba shares - works fine.

However, the 'server' (dual PIII-650, 768 MB) is a simple IDE 
based system and the lan is bog-standard 100Mbit so it seems a 
little slower to me, than running with everything local.

LeeE

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