Hey All -
Many users have complained about application slowness once we made the migration to the Macintosh Manager system from the free for all that we had endured before.
There seems to be an overabundance of network activity even when the computer is idle.
Applications, like MS Word, run painstakingly slow. Sometimes taking users a few minutes to type a line of text. I realize that MS Word has the autosave feature, and that that affects performance, but there's something else wrong here.
I've set the clients at 10 half , leaving the server at 100 full in an attempt to limit these problems. While it's definitely smoothed things out at the office, there's got to be another workaround here.
Any suggestions?
Is there a way to just allow the users to work offline by default? Say they log in. They connect to the server, their settings/documents/etc are automatically downloaded and the server disconnects them. All of their work is then local and they're free to do whatever they want. When they log out, their work is sycronized back to the server for safe keeping.
They would have access to any shared volumes that the server connects them to when they log in, but most everything else would be local.
Bad idea? Any pointers here?
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