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- From: dwells@cognet.ucla.edu (David Wells)
- Subject: os/2 server?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.183913.6508@cognet.ucla.edu>
- Sender: news@cognet.ucla.edu
- Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Program
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:39:13 GMT
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- I am setting up a file server/gateway system, and am wondering if an
- os/2 system would be competitive. Currently, a Sun SS2 is my primary
- candidate. I've tested a Novell NFS server, and it's performance was
- good (400+ NFSops for a 486/33 EISA w/ 1 SCSI, 2 disks and 2
- Ethernets), but the Novell s/w costs more than an SS2 server!!!
-
- Given a 486/50 with (all bus master EISA) 2 SCSI controllers and 4
- ethernets running os/2, what level of NFS and gateway performance
- should I expect? For security reasons, I'd like to be able to
- restrict, say, NFS packets from going to one of the ethernets, while
- allowing telnet packets to do so. Can os/2 do such packet filtering?
- If so, then how much impact would this have on the system's NFS
- performance?
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- A different preformance question is how much does system throughput
- degrade when an os/2 system is under heavy load. Similarly, how much
- does adding more RAM improve this?
-
- Another consideration is stability. How stable is os/2? Will it run
- under heavy loads for a week? a month? (in our environment, a sun
- needs to be rebooted monthly)
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- thanks,
- David
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