well, one thing to take in count is that Linux machines out perform
windows boxes in network speed (at least of what I have seen). I think
it has a lot to do with NFS vs Samba... or rather how Windows is
working with Samba.
regards
stefan
On Jan 4, 2008 11:09 AM, kim aldis <xsi(at)kim-aldis.co.uk> wrote:
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> Whether it's still relevant or not I'm not sure but when my company was
> making the migration from SGI over to Windows, what, 10-15 years ago?,
> while the windows machines were that much faster at rendering and animating
> it was scary just how lousy it's network performance was than the slower SGI
> boxes. I remember how we used to serve SI installations from a single
> location on the SGI boxes and that it was fast enough that it was
> transparent. The same most certainly couldn't be said of the windows boxes,
> even when we did manage to bolster the appallingly inadequate networking
> tools that came with the OS – no telnet or ftp servers, for example (!?!?!)
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> I also remember moving a perfectly adequately performing web server from
> SGI onto a supposedly faster Windows machine. Then moving it back because it
> was unworkable.
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> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
> Halfdan Ingvarsson
> Sent: 03 January 2008 22:38
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: Lots of very high res textures
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> This is actually an OS problem and is the same as if you had your page/swap
> file on the network. If you're using Linux with NFS and caching enabled, it
> works quite ok since the network copy is transparently copied to the local
> drive and mapped from there. The same cannot be said for many other network
> drive implementations and especially not CIFS on Windows.
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> - ½
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