[ On Thu, December 17, 1998 at 10:39:12 (-0700), Tim Rightnour wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: le0: overflow
>
> The sparc is nice and slow, but the pentium sending it data is blasting it at
> full bore.  Then you turn around and ask it to do something with that data,
> (draw, compile, read files, whatever) and now you are eating even more CPU. 
> Something is bound to loose.

Which could be true if the SS-1 is using NFS over UDP, I suppose....

but if that data is coming over TCP connections, then TCP flow control
should slow things down to a rate that even a VAX could handle.

However I wouldn't recommend running a diskless machine with NFS over
TCP, at least not unless you want to reboot your client every time any
server it uses reboots.

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