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From: ian@unipalm.uucp (Ian Phillipps)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS performance
Keywords: Interactive comments and vs. Novell
Message-ID: <1991May30.165457.26093@unipalm.uucp>
Date: 30 May 91 16:54:57 GMT
References: <427@fjcp60.GOV> <1991May28.151439.3167@Firewall.Nielsen.Com> <7678@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., Cambridge, England
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rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:

>kdenning@genesis.Naitc.Com (Karl Denninger) writes:
>>ISC's NFS is horrid.  The best I've seen on writes is about 30k/sec on a
>>fast '386 machine.  The CPU is not saturated, nor is the Ethernet card.

>SOSS is almost that fast, running on an 8-bit card with a 20-MHz 386
>and talking to a Novell server through a second network hop, using 1K
>RPC writes.  ISC can't be *that* bad, can it?

No: I just copied /unix from an ISC 386 to a Sun 3/50 (yeah!) in 6 seconds
elapsed; thats approx 120k/second.

Ian