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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Printserver Compatibility
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.221920.25888@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 22:19:20 GMT
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Irving's advice is good. If you must combine services,
- make sure the server has lots of memory, and discourage
- users of that machine from using Mathematica.
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- We have a 32 Mb 25 Mhz slab that acts as Homedirectory
- server, mail server, primary netinfo server, ypserver, xntp
- server, and print server for 11 other machines. It's
- noticably sluggish when a big print job hits, but otherwise
- is fine.
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- Note being a bootserver really runs the hard disk ragged.
- Not recommended.
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