> However the traffic due to remote booting is negligible in the scheme of
> things. It's just the kernel and perhaps an initrd and only once per
> boot.
yes.
> The delays due to NFS would make it unattractive though. Unless you
> have a gigabit network, fast server disks and run the applications
> locally.
On the other hand, kicking most of the operating system off the machine,
as you do when running as a diskless boot, saves considerable memory.
That memory can serve an excellent purpose of running as a ramdisk;
especially if you use the 2.4 kernel capabilities for VFS for this.
Now, if you have a background thread that loads and unloads your
local memory cache ahead of the game needing the data, then you may
get noticably better performance. After all, your kernel is running
with most of the hardware drivers disabled (so interrupt load is low).
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