I found a problem w/ my Win 2000 machine on my Novell network.
There was a setting in the Netware client properties that was cacheing files
causing problems. The machine would not disconnect from the database until 30
seconds after I exited out of R:base. This was very annoying when I was
running a program that disconnected from the database and then was supposed to
make a copy of it.
Troy
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>> How else could you explain a lag of several minutes before system B can
>(in
>> some cases) see changes made by system A? It makes no sense to me unless
>I
>> view it in terms of two distinct caches (or I am particularly near-sighted
>> and cannot see the obvious answer, which is, of course, quite possible).
>>
>> In the particular observed case, system A is a desktop machine and system
>B
>> is a thin client attached to a W2k server running Metaframe.
>
>I don't doubt that you're seeing the problem you report only that, in
>theory, a disk cache shouldn't be causing it. Obviously something is. I
>don't know whether it's possible for a program to "fool" the disk cache so
>that somehow the data is read directly from disk rather than from the cache,
>but perhaps something like that is going on.
>
>Also, I don't know anything at all about Metaframe, but is it possible that
>it is keeping its own cache, separate from the operating system? If so,
>that cache could still contain the old disk based pages while the operating
>system cache had not yet written the data to disk. The two caches could be
>on the same machine, just not coordinated.
>--
>Larry
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Troy Sosamon
Denver Co
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