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- From: fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
- Subject: Re: Free NFS Response Time Measurement Software
- Message-ID: <4-gyl#c@rpi.edu>
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <1992Aug10.045921.13353@aim.com> <nxfyh!-@rpi.edu> <op4fvdo@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:12:49 GMT
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- Vernon Schryver writes:
- >In article <nxfyh!-@rpi.edu>, fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
- >> > FREE NFS SERVER RESPONSE TIME UTILITY
- >> > *************************************
- >>
- >> ... cool program. For anyone interested, here's an example output of
- >> the free demo they sent me. Good teaser for the sharpshooter.
- >> ...
- ...
- >I'd be very surprised if the AIM test is very valuable. I could be
- >wrong, of course, especially since I have never seen the AIM NFS test.
- >
- >I don't make this attack lightly, but the history of commerical
- >benchmarks is not pretty. If you think the system vendors are scum,
- ...
-
- Don't know much about NFS, or NFS performance monitoring and tuning
- myself, but at least look over the brochure before dismissing it out of
- hand.
-
- More to the point, that NFS performance tuning is such a lucrative
- business is a telling commentary on the reliability of NFS.
-
- Brian
-