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Hello, Some time ago hagopiar_at_vuser.vu.union.ed was inquiring about possible cache overflow when working with large files. A possible conslusion from the ensuing discussion was that venus required a larger cache than the largest file under /coda. In other words, working on a 1GB file would mandate at least 1GB of cache. Jan gave good reasons for this limitation. I made the following small experiment just to make sure. On the strongly connected client running coda 5.3.1, I set the venus cache to 10MB. Then, I issued the command: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/coda/zero bs=1024 count=20000 This created a 20MB file in /coda/zero. As far as I can remember, there were a few complaints from coda which I nonchalantly ignored. In any case, the 20MB file was there, the client did not crash and /coda remained accessible. So what gives? When strogly connected, does the cache need to be as large as the working file or not? Regards, CekiReceived on 1999-10-05 06:11:36