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From: mikef@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Fallavollita)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: SOSS Performance - Is it really this bad?
Keywords: SOSS NFS PC-NFS performance
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.193848.5950@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 91 19:38:48 GMT
Sender: mikef@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Fallavollita)
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Can anyone quote me some performance stats for SOSS?  The company I work for
thought that SOSS would solve it's LAN problems, but after getting it installed
we tried to transfer a 0.5MB file from the server to a client running PC-NFS
3.01.  The transfer took 14 seconds.  When we tried to copy the same file
to a different directory on the server, the server got a stack error and
crashed.

I can't believe that SOSS is this bad, but I don't know what we could have
done wrong.  Both PCs have WD8003 cards.  The server was running PC-Kwik and
has 4MB of memory.  We were also running PCI over the same cables for different
PCs while testing but I don't know how that could affect things.

Any help, pointers, or information would be appreciated.

Mike Fallavollita
MicroTech Conversion Systems
mikef@joshua.stanford.edu
fallavol@corvus.arc.nasa.gov
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