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- From: tbo@vector.dallas.tx.us (Terry Bohaning)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: NFS / RFS performance ???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.192211.8020@vector.dallas.tx.us>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:22:11 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
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- Hi All,
-
- Does anyone have any experience with Sun RFS and NFS.
-
- We're currently using NFS in a major way, but have learned the hard way
- what an "Unreliable Transport" that UDP is. From Sun's documentation it
- appears that RFS is TCP based, but it really doesn't give me any idea
- of the performance characteristics of the protocols. Can anyone give me
- a comparison of the NFS vs RFS.
-
- I'm trying to work around the current nightmare that we have. Most of
- our user's have quit using NFS as it is so unreliable. In order to get
- enough speed, we need to run with a frame size of 8k. For reliability,
- OTOH, we need to set the frame size between 1-2k. This means that we take
- a hugh hit in performance to get a reliable transport.
-
- Will RFS give us a reasonably fast, reliable transport mechanism???
-
- Thanks,
-
- Terry Bohaning tbo@vector.dallas.tx.us
- Systems Administrator Dallas Semiconductor Inc.
-