From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Locking mechanisms / fcntl.c locks.c Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 13:05:03 GMT
Not only do you need to use lockf() over NFS but lockf() and its associated
rpc lock daemons are incredibly slow. Much better to put the program accessing
the files on one machine only.
With good design a 250 user BBS should run fine off a 16Mb 386. We get 12
users and other things fine on a 4Mb 386 running Linux - and thats unoptimized
code that needs cleaning up (currently under way).
UnAxcess was much improved by a large group of UK people in Bradford and
a few other sites. Someone probably even has the much fixed code. The fixed
one was actually quite decent.
Alan