Uses of a network HDD?

kenwas · Nov 23, 2010

Hi all the ppl out there

well we all know that a net drive helps transfer and store data but can it rune programs whith out laging down the host pc ?

exp ..lets say pc 1 and pc 2 has a boot. pc 2 has a program that is rooted to pc 1.How much will pc 1 lag wen pc 2 use's that root to run its program whiel pc 1 is maxed out memery(ram) use ? also will pc 2 run slower than as if it wer instaled to its self ?

ty for yer time
Ken

Spacekiwi · Nov 23, 2010

I have run World of Warcraft over the network and this is what I have noticed:
When trying to start the game there will be a longer than usual delay, however once in the game it performs just as normal.
I have not noticed much effect on the host pc whilst I am doing this however I have not really drained its reasources whilst this is happening

DelJo63 · Nov 25, 2010

This is an infamous networking question:

Issues for running a program on system A which is installed on system B?

In the general sense, this is a bad idea. Accessing networked data is trivial, while accessing and executing a program is frought with problems.

If the non-local program would run,

then any paging that was necessary would also occur across the network
(ie instead of transferring data from memory to HDD @ DMA speeds, you need to transport those pages across the NIC at a limited bandwidth).

Secondly, any networking errors or retries would not be anticipated by the system A doing the paging, and would misinterpret the error codes and lead to a crash

The above are issues discovered a decade ago with Sunmicro systems which delivered the
diskless workstation concept. The smart terminal would even boot from the network
(ie the PXE option in the BIOS) and run from a central image. It only took ~4-6 diskless system to saturate the network

However, Windows requires the use of the local registry to find all the resources necessary for the X.EXE to operate.
Windows Server 2xxxx has special support for some programs to do this, but it's not for the average home user to contemplate.

kenwas · Dec 14, 2010

jobeard said:
This is an infamous networking question:
In the general sense, this is a bad idea. Accessing networked data is trivial, while accessing and executing a program is frought with problems.

If the non-local program would run,
then any paging that was necessary would also occur across the network
(ie instead of transferring data from memory to HDD @ DMA speeds, you need to transport those pages across the NIC at a limited bandwidth).

Secondly, any networking errors or retries would not be anticipated by the system A doing the paging, and would misinterpret the error codes and lead to a crash

The above are issues discovered a decade ago with Sunmicro systems which delivered the
diskless workstation concept. The smart terminal would even boot from the network
(ie the PXE option in the BIOS) and run from a central image. It only took ~4-6 diskless system to saturate the network
However, Windows requires the use of the local registry to find all the resources necessary for the X.EXE to operate.
Windows Server 2xxxx has special support for some programs to do this, but it's not for the average home user to contemplate.

nice..all that info is superb thank you so much..

Uses of a network HDD?

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