[pmmail-list] network drives

[Ralph Cohen]

Hi Michael,

>2) None of my client or myself use the preview window so that should cut down
>on the use of the temp dir - server or workstation located.
>

I agree.

>
>Is temp used while bringing PMMail up? Or what else makes it so slow coming up
>from a WSeB drive... Oh, and I have copied all of PMMail over to a test
>Linux/Samba server, rebooted Linux to flush the disk cache, and it starts up
>from Samba in seconds vs 1 min! That was my thinking that Win2K and WSeB are
>"fighting" about something.
>

I don't belive the temp directory is accessed when you open PMMail with
the Preview window closed - at least there are no files created in that
directory - but I don't know if PMMail goes looking for it anyway which
could slow things down.  You might be correct, however, about Win2K and
WSeB "fighting" over something that is causing the large delay you are
seeing.  Do you have problems accessing any other files between the
systems?  

Another thing to consider, is that the drive on my OS/2 system which
contains the msg files is mapped to a drive letter in Win2k.  The
mapping takes place when I boot Win2k so I'm able to access that drive
without any delay whatsoever.  There is a noticable delay, however, the
first time I access a drive on my OS/2 system that hasn't be mapped.

Ralph

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