Are fileservers a waste...

[sgf at cfm.brown.edu]

In a previous posting I stated that our 3.5 3/280 server was maxing out
its ie during excessive nd paging. After receiving info from an ether-guru
at Sun I am inclined to believe that it is possible that the ether was
saturating. My bandwidth-use info came from ether(3r) stats on a diskful
160, and I now think that I should get my hands on an etherhound for more
accurate monitoring.

In either case the best thing to do is to have >= 8MB of memory in the
clients and then to slap on local disk for swap. Making the network look
like a disk for data private to the client is a waste of server cpu and
network bandwidth.