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- From: "Bob George" <BOB@aeneas.ims.disa.mil>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: re: vms tuning for vaxcluster (lavc)
- Message-ID: <7988366@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 14:10:00 EST
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- Subj: Re: VMS tuning for a vaxcluster (LAVC)
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- #<brydon@dsny25.sinet.slb.com> writes:
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- #[much useful stuff deleted]
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- #>Okay, but what about the situation of one satellite vaxstation on a lightly
- #>loaded network? I think page read I/O's should be considered separately from
- #>page write I/O's. Does this satellite system do page read I/O's any faster
- #>over the ethernet versus to local disk? [I would imagine that page write
- #>I/O's would be dependent entirely on the relative disk speeds of the local
- #>versus boot node disk speed.]
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- #Nope. The local disk's still faster. When I and a friend did VMS tuning
- #studies for <a former employer> we found that even on an unloaded net the
- #local disk was faster. Mind you, this was using VAXstation IIs with between
- #5 and 16MB and RD54s. Mileage on newer systems may vary, but I'd bet that
- #the local disk still beats Ethernet traffic.
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- [lots of interesting stuff deleted]
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- Am I missing something fairly obvious in this thread or on the nonlocal
- paging, don't you still have to wait for a disk I/O to occur. On top of
- the overhead of setting up the ethernet packet(s), when it gets to the
- node where it was going, there is still a disk I/O that needs done. On
- a page write, this activity could be buffered. But on a page read, the
- process would still be hung up until the actual disk gets read and the data
- returned. For at least moderately similar disks, this would give the
- advantage to the local disks.
- bob
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