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- From: kristina@sandia.uucp (Kristina Buchholtz (9226))
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Is local caching configurable?
- Message-ID: <776@sandia.UUCP>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 19:59:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sandia.776
- Sender: kristina@sandia.UUCP
- Organization: Sandia Natl Labs, Div. 9224
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- Hi,
-
- I'm using Ultrix 4.3, and have done some timing tests on
- local disk access vs. nfs disk access. Nfs seems to be
- about twice as fast on writes of large files, and I am
- guessing this is because the data is cached. Are there
- some parameters that can be tweaked to cause local data
- to be cached, to make local accesses as fast as nfs
- accesses? (If so, would this be a bad idea?) (I realize
- this nfs vs. local timing difference is not limited to
- Ultrix 4.3; I've found the same results on Ultrix 4.2 and
- SunOS.)
-
- Are my findings consistent with anybody else's experience?
-
- Thanks for any info...
-
- Kristina Buchholtz
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