Where do programs execute?

[newgeneral10]

Hello,

 

I have my own freenas box with a GBA emulator and some roms in a smb share.  I am able to simply double click on the application and run it from the shared folder without dragging it to the desktop or anything like that.  Does that mean that the application is running on the server or is it still being executed locally?  Also, is there any benefit to copying and pasting from the share to the local hard drive before running the program?

[themctipers]

tiny speed benefit, shouldn't matter because the file is ~4MB? and HDDs read sequentially at 100+ MB/s

when you execute the application from the shared folder, its running locally. 

[EunSoo]

Its running on the computer that is accessing the files. It would be faster to load programs off an internal HDD than a NAS but copying the program will probably take longer anyway.

[Scorcher646]

unless any trickery was set up on the nas, you computer will be running the file locally and not off the NAS, for optimal speed and lowest latency I would recommend always storing the files for a program you are executing localy

[Oshino Shinobu]

Think of the FreeNAS server as just a hard drive. It is running on the PC that executed the file, just as it would if you were running it off an internal hard drive. 

 

Moving the files to a local drive before running them would remove any bottleneck from the network. 

[newgeneral10]

Ok, that's what I thought.  Thank you guys!