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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: NFS slowness
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1993Jan4.175456.20845@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:56:57 GMT
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- weltman@adoc.xerox.com summarizes:
- } I received a number of informative responses to my question
- }about why large NFS writes are so slow ...
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- }From auspex.com!guy Thu Dec 31 11:08:24 1992
- ...
- }The Prestoserve board acts as "some form of storage that survives a
- }server crash", but can be written to faster than can a disk ...
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- }"Niche" in the hardware sense, or the marketplace sense? They offer
- }both VMEbus and SBus versions for Suns; I don't know if their DEC
- }version is a Turbochannel board or not.
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- As I understand it (we don't have any, we use the evil asynch hack*),
- it sits in one of the memory board slots.
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- * I guess you could say Liebert makes ours ;-)
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- John
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