From: randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) Subject: Re: [Q] linux(386) on a net of Sparcs Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 06:18:46 GMT
cort@sphinx.cs.nmt.edu (Cort) writes:
>
> How successful have people been on putting a linux machine on
>a network using sparcs for file servers, NIS etc. I don't even know what
>kind of ethernet cards work well. I couldn't find a whole lot of info
>on the subject in the FAQ.
> Any suggestions/comments/anecdotes would be greatly appreciated.
>Please mail me any responses...Thanks in advance.
I have three Linux boxes running with 6 Sparcs and 5 HP snakes. We
have problems with the HPs and the Linux boxes, but we always have
problems with the HPs.
NFS writes from Linux to anything are slow, and REALLY slow for large
files. It's a known problem related to the block size of Linux and
the NFS transfer size differing.
We don't run NIS, but we're looking into it.
X runs great across the network. We run programs on the HP's for
speed, and display on the Linux boxes for color.
-Anything I can do to help, let me know.