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- From: backman@FTP.COM (Larry Backman)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Awful NFS performance!
- Message-ID: <9301061134.AA14588@ftp.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 11:34:41 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: The Internet
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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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- I would be to differ (as would Geoff, Carl and all of our friendly
- competitors). I have personally run PCMagLan performance tests
- from the same DOS workstation using first Novell Netware against
- a Netware 3.11 server, and then using our NFS against Netware NFS on the
- same server. The results showed a properly tuned NFS client to
- be in the 90% of Netware category. As to x00K bytes/sec. thats
- so dependent on client CPU speed, server spped & load, etc. that its
- not a fair measure.
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- Of course my benchmark implies that Novell has an excellent NFS server
- just as much as it implies we have a fast NFS client.
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- Larry Backman
- FTP Software
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