G'day Dan Situation: a mail room getting HEAPS of artwork that has to be printed on a tight turnaround time schedule. 30-40 emails per hour. The email and art has to be date/time stamped and archived to the mac AND the server on a network. For some reason the network is @#$% slow. We're talking 1 minute 20 to save 3 files.
Latest situation in last hour. We've compared the performance of the power mac to my iMac 8000 miles away (I'm the author of the Applescript handling the printing/saving) and discovered that the end user had a HP laser running on his power mac using AppleTalk. We removed the printer, turned AppleTalk off (and set to automatic) and now the server is nearly as fast as the external drive. We can turn AppleTalk back on, and still maintain the speed as long as the printer is removed from the printer list. New Question. Can we do anything to use this printer and maintain speed? Regards Santa On 11/04/2009, at 2:16 AM, Dan wrote: > > At 10:28 PM +1000 4/10/2009, Brian Christmas wrote: >> >> I'm trying to save multiple email, rtfd, and Zip files to a NAS >> server about 30 times per hour. >> [and later] Time is critical > > Why? What's the point of all this? > >> The saving to server is proving very, very slow compared to saving >> the same files to an external hard drive off of the power mac. > > Yea. Direct i/o thru high bandwidth buses to a drive vs AFP thru > TCP/IP thru ethernet or wifi. > > The path thru the network will ALWAYS be MUCH slower than than > direct i/o. > >> What I'd like to do is try mirroring the external HD to the server >> and >> update the mirror every time a file is added to the external. Is >> there any way to do this, OR is there something I should take into >> account to speed up the server. > > It sounds like you're trying to do some sort of file-level faux > networked RAID? Why? > > Either: > a) Do *real* RAID to a locally connected HD subsystem, such as a > Drobo etc. > or > b) Use the fsevent type services provided in Leopard, aka Time > Machine to a Time Capsule. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
