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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Apple’s materials say AFP performance is 30% faster, NFS is 50% faster, and SMB is 60% faster on Snow Leopard Server.<br>
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So, it looks like it would probably be a good move for your software repository servers assuming your network bandwidth isn’t the bottleneck. At the recent CUG, Sam had mentioned that there could be some future use of new versions of underlying services in near-future releases of Casper though which would help with large deployments.<br>
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<hr align="CENTER" size="3" width="95%"><b>From: </b>Thomas Larkin <<a href="tlarki@kckps.org">tlarki@kckps.org</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:08:29 -0600<br>
<b>To: </b>Ted August <<a href="taugust04.lists@gmail.com">taugust04.lists@gmail.com</a>>, Jared - 1160 - MITLL Nichols <<a href="jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu">jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu</a>><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Casper] OFF TOPIC - 10.6 SL Server, is it worth the upgrade?<br>
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If you use Software Update Server for your clients, you're forced to upgrade if you've got Snow Leopard client machines. It's really the only reason we're going to it seeing how Casper 7's JSS runs just fine on 10.5. <br>
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On Nov 6, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Ted August wrote: <br>
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I have read that AFP performance has been improved in 10.6. Unfortunately I did not keep track of the articles I read that mention this. <br>
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On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Steve Wood wrote: <br>
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Looking for opinions on upgrading from 10.5 Server to 10.6 Server. Not just from a Casper standpoint, but from an all around performance gain, etc, standpoint. Who has done the upgrade and is it worth it? We mainly use AFP, OD, DNS, DHCP, Netboot, and some web on our servers.<br>
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