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keybrdplaya

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I am using a g4-350 w/512 mb ram, western digital 8mb cache, 0S 9.1, as a file server in a TCP IP network of about 5 macs. Everyone is running 100 mb cards. Mainly, saving files from Photoshop and certain apps takes FOREVER to navigate through the server's directories. Quark, OK. Illustrator, OK. (both vector based, hmmm). I general, simply navigating through the folders at the root level takes a bit to refresh.

Five questions.
1. Is a server that's used ONLY for file sharing dependent on CPU speed, and/or RAM?
2. Is it the OS slowing it down? or the Application (photoshop) itself?
3. Is the network slowing it down? (speeds for internet and other apps are just fine)
4. How can I speed it up?
5. Is XServe the answer?

Thanks in advance for ANY replies - Keybrdplaya
 
keybrdplaya said:
I am using a g4-350 w/512 mb ram, western digital 8mb cache, 0S 9.1, as a file server in a TCP IP network of about 5 macs. Everyone is running 100 mb cards. Mainly, saving files from Photoshop and certain apps takes FOREVER to navigate through the server's directories. Quark, OK. Illustrator, OK. (both vector based, hmmm). I general, simply navigating through the folders at the root level takes a bit to refresh.

Five questions.
1. Is a server that's used ONLY for file sharing dependent on CPU speed, and/or RAM?
2. Is it the OS slowing it down? or the Application (photoshop) itself?
3. Is the network slowing it down? (speeds for internet and other apps are just fine)
4. How can I speed it up?
5. Is XServe the answer?

Thanks in advance for ANY replies - Keybrdplaya
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Dunno, but I have a G3 400Mhz 256MB of RAM I use as a server and it's as fast as a local drive when I browse. I am using OSX.3, but I think your issues are more network related.

Here's an idea, try turning off "Sleep harddisk whenever possible." I don't know if OS9 had that option anywhere, but turning that off made my server more responsive (I guess the old ata interface made it slow to wake up hdds).
 
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