RE: Slowing down while editing document on the client


Subject: RE: Slowing down while editing document on the client
From: Palotas Peter (sysman@starkingnet.hu)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 07:58:14 EDT


Finally it seems we found all the answares for my problem:

>1. The connection establishment took about 30 secounds. The chooser
>message was Connection establishment... Switchhing back to appletalk...
>then came the login window. Finaly I set the notcp option and now its
>works fine.
>
>2. AfterI opened a document from the server while editind it or just
>scrolling it my Mac looks like it freeze. But not, just the two arrows
>indicate on the top left corner the network trafic with the netatalk
>server and after 5-10 secound I can continue ma work.

I just corrected the host file on my linux box and removed the notcp
options from my cionfig file.
With this the 2nd problem gone and the tcp connection also seems to fast,
but the true is connecting to appletalk is faster than tcp.

Thanks: Peter

>Chris Herrmann (chris@faredge.com.au):

>consider running something like djb's dnscache - will make name
>resolution a lot faster:
>
>http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
>
>it's one component of a range of dns tools.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Palotas Peter [mailto:sysman@starkingnet.hu]
>Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2001 21:49
>To: netatalk-admins
>Cc: Jason Quigley
>Subject: Re: Slowing down while editing document on the client
>
>
>Jason,
>
>>Jason Quigley (jasonq@mac.com):
>
>>Just a couple of quick questions...
>>
>>You complained about tcp being slow.
>
>Yes. We have a LAN which connets to the Internet via Cisco 706 ISDN modem.
>
>>o What sort of DNS setup have you got?
>
>We don't have dns server in the LAN. We use our Internet provider's NSs
>if it is needed. These are set in the clients and the server as well.
>
>>o Are these machines connected to the internet?
>>o How?
>
>Yes. See below.
>
>>o What have you got in your hosts files (macs and server)?
>
>On macs it is empty. I will chech the server and inform you!
>
>Peter
>>
>>On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 12:38 PM, Palotas Peter wrote:
>>
>>> Anatol,
>>>
>>> Currently I don't use noadouble, I only have the notcp options.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>> Anatol Ulrich (anatol.ulrich@text-bild.de):
>>>
>>>> Peter,
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The noadouble option my servers appears very-very slow. I tried it
>>>>> because we use samba as well and PC users confused the .AppleDouble
>>>>> folders.
>>>>>
>>>> donĀ“t use noadouble; hide the .AppleDouble folders in samba with the
>>>> parameter veto files
>>>>
>>>> -anatol
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>



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