At 2:35 AM -0800 12/18/01, J. Benedict wrote:
>  >At 8:22 PM -0800 12/17/01, J. Benedict wrote:
>>>   >On Monday, December 17, 2001, at 07:23  pm, Brian Heath wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   Just wondering if anyone has tried any of the latest Netatalk builds
>>>>>   available out on SourceForge. 1.5rc1 was just posted today and I'm
>>>>>   wondering
>>>>>   if its worth upgrading from 1.4+asun.
>>>
>>>I'm looking for a little faster AppleShare performance.  I have my NetBSD
>>>box on a network with 'genuine' AppleShare servers (OS X Server) and the
>>>speed difference between the two is amazing.
>>>
>>>Is this new release any faster?
>>
>>Ummmm, perhaps the difference has more to do with the fact that the
>>absolute fastest machine that qualifies as "port-mac68k" is an 80 Mhz
>>68040 CISC chip. And the absolute SLOWEST machine that can run OSXS
>>is a 233 Mhz G3.
>
>All true and maybe I shouldn't have made that comparison.  However,
>Netatalk is knowm to be kind of slow.  I'm wondering if this new version is
>any faster than previous versions.

NetAtalk shouldn't be slow with Adrian Sun's AFP-over-IP patches (the 
-asun package, and they're merged into the current stuff you're 
asking about). With asun, you should be getting around or better than 
an ASIP server on comparable hardware.

Mike
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