#Suicide as an option <g>
21-Oct-93 09:48:20
Sb: #62666-#Suicide as an option <g>
Fm: David Taffet 70473,3052
To: John Ellis 72440,3046
John – Don't let me lead you astray, here. We used NW 2.2 where I
work, where we do not have 3DS at all, and probably never will. We
*did* have numerous (20+/-) Mac and PC workstations doing
multi-megabyte graphics work and printing to Postscript devices,
however. For a while we made the mistake of storing all our fonts out
on the server, where every Mac was accessing them during printing.
This generated monuMENtal traffic, along the lines described by John
Tissavary. The excessive traffic slowed the server *way* down,
sometimes stopping the entire network in its tracks for seconds on
end, but we *never* got corrupted data and the system *never* crashed
from the load. We did upgrade to 3.x and it's better than 2.2… I
suggested v.2.2 only because it'd be cheaper than 3.x or 4.x, does
not require a dedicated server and could do the job. 3.11 would be
better, but it ain't cheap, even for a 5-user version *and* requires
a dedicated server. FWIW