On 4/25/08 7:37 PM, "David Haines" <
email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> On 4/24/08 11:08 PM, "Nate Rudd" <
email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> We run a lab of Macs for our students at our school. Unfortunately,
>>> logging in and starting Word has been slow when we are packed (50
>>> computers). Looking into it I found that much of AFP's memory was in
>>> virtual memory. So we purchased 4 GB more RAM (we are now at 6 GB).
>>> However, still the fact remains that more than double the memory is
>>> in virtual memory (usually 275 MBish in Real Memory, and 650 MB in
>>> virtual memory). With 3 GBs free! I have already followed AFP548's
>>> article on increasing the thread count, but that didn't seem to
>>> affect the memory. What can I do to have AFP use more of the
>>> available memory?
>
>> On Apr 25, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Jeff Kelleher wrote:
>
>> MS Office simply does not
>> play nice with network user homes. If you haven't yet, remove the
>> DoFonts
>> app from the MS Office directory and remove the MD fonts form the ~/
>> Library
>> folders. You may also consider checking out NHR
>>
http://jochsner.dyndns.org/Scripts/NHR.html
>> or working out your own scripts to do something similar.
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Deafears wrote:
>>
>> Basically the questions boils down to whether or not we should get a
>> new Xeon server for our students. I am struggling with the decision
>> because the 2.0 GHz G5 (10.4.11) that we are running only reports
>> around 30% usage. Would the Xeon server help with the situation, or
>> is the Network Home Redirector the way to go (probably it is
>> regardless of what server I am using).
>>
>
> I witnessed at one location, a marked, significant improvement in AFP
> performance, when migrating AFP file-services from a G5 running the
> PPC build of 10.4.9 server,
> to an Intel Xeon Xserve running 10.4.x (10 out of the box, IIRC) -
> namely the Universal Binary build. The difference may come down to the
> improvements in the new (UB) build,
> as mentioned by Nigel Kersten in his afp548 article
>
>
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20060905144209269
> part 1 is here
>
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20060329213629494
>
>
> Thereafter, I helped migrate another location to the UB build of 10.4
> server on their G5 Xserve and they also saw some performance problems
> go away entirely.
>
> Having said that, probably your biggest issue right now is the
> performance hit incurred by Office with network homes as mentioned by
> Jeff.
> I say - certainly start with NHR
