Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!davecb From: davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: how many nfsd's should I run? Message-ID: <21750@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 24 Feb 91 17:12:00 GMT References: <28975@cs.yale.edu> <1991Feb24.025821.11354@news.iastate.edu> Organization: York U. Computing Services Lines: 21 In <1991Feb24.025821.11354@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul) writes: | Does anyone have a solid answer for this question? thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes: | I think that part of the problem is that nobody has done a really | good job at finding an answer, and that part is that there just | isn't _one_ answer; that there's one for each job mix, machine | pair, and user community. This can be determined empirically with fair ease on a machine which is swapping/paging via nfs: log in and start X windows and some applications. we did it with three people (on three workstations) in a couple of hours without even needing a quiescent net. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave 72 Abitibi Ave., | Willowdale, Ontario, | Even cannibals don't usually eat their CANADA. 416-223-8968 | friends. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com