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Re: Login nightmare



I have used the built-in folder redirect and it's still that slow.  Nothing
changed.


On 1/25/08 9:51 AM, "Josh Wisenbaker" <email@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Geoff Lee wrote:
> 
>> On 25 Jan 2008, at 15:07, Nick Kutzko wrote:
>> 
>>> 2GHz G5 Xserve, 2GB RAM, 450GB.  Home directories are on a separate
>>> drive
>>> from the OS, if that matters.
>> 
>> If you're trying to support 30 simultaneous logins from one disk
>> spindle, I'd say that's your problem... think of the amount of work
>> that one disk is trying to do reading 30 Preference folders
>> simultaneously! I'd think seriously about setting up at least a
>> striped RAID or possibly using local accounts on the machines and
>> redirecting the documents folders (this is what I do).
> 
> 
> Yeah, IO contention is typically a big issue. Try redirecting things
> like the caches and such to the local disks. We have an article on
> using the built-in folder redirector on 10.5.
> 
> We also have an AFP server tuning article series that may help.
> 
> Josh

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