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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- From: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk (Leo Smith)
- Subject: Re: Awful NFS performance!
- Reply-To: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:04:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.842598@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- In-Reply-To: <C0C5vI.Hn@cmie.ernet.in> ajayshah@cmie.ernet.in
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- >I just finished using Nortons `sysinfo' to measure the performance
- >of B&W 3.0 NFS and I get 80k/s on read and 10k/s on write.
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- >This is on a 386@25.
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- What was your server: This is about right for SCO Unix, but poor for
- (say) a SUN.
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- >Ouch! What can one do about it?
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- Not much. Prestoserve on a SUN. ask again in comps.protocols.nfs
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- >NFS has a serious problem being a credible approach for networking
- >PCs if this is all one gets by way of speed. What does one get with
- >Novell Netware?
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- In excess of 500Kbytes/Sec. If speed is all you want, forget NFS.
- Netware caches its disk, and can give very near saturation of the
- Ethernet with a good server - lets face it thats ALL the server CPU
- and RAM does: Serve files :-) (NLM's excluded)
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- > -ans.
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