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- From: kint@rio.engr.washington.edu (Rick Kint)
- Subject: NFS I/O Ops/seconds
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.061146.15641@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:11:46 GMT
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- We're buying a Sun to serve as an NFS server in one of our departments.
- The Sun rep commented that a typical Ethernet allows 300 NFS ops per second,
- so if you're on a single wire any server bandwidth beyond that is wasted.
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- I have no feel whatsoever for the numbers that go into this figure,
- can anyone in netland (a) explain this in words of two syllables or less, and
- (b) does anyone know the figures for current systems?
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- I'm sure that this includes assumptions about what represents a
- typical mix of operations; since a getattr is presumably quicker than a write
- (for example), how useful are these numbers anyway?
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- ObCurmudgeonlyRemark: I was reading about the SS10/41, with 1 MB of
- cache. Good Lord, a meg of cache on a workstation, why when I was your age
- we thought a meg of *main memory* on a *mainframe* was a lot...
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- Rick Kint UNIX Geek, College of Engineering
- kint@engr.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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