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From: moyman@AQUARIUM.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Mike "appletalk" MacMoya)
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Subject: Re: GaterCap?
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Date: 6 Apr 89 19:05:24 GMT
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   From:  prism!tharen%bold1.gatech.edu@gatech.edu  (Tharen Debold)
   Subject:  Re: GaterCap?

   We use AUFS thru a GatorBox here, and get very good performance.  Talking
   from our Mac II's to a SUN 4 file server, it's about 3 times faster using
   AUFS thru a GatorBox than over a FastPath 2, and about 3 times faster using
   AUFS on the GatorBox rather than using NFS.

   Tharen D. Debold
  
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I have no doubt the GatorBox is faster, however, comparing it to a 
FastPath *2* is not very fair, especially with a Sun 4 as the server.
I compared the GatorBox NFS with Aufs through a FastPath *4* and found
the GatorBox to be *a hare* slower.  This wasjust *single* user
however, how their performance compares in traffic is another
story...*that* I will post later...

In addition, I think you will find the performance of the Fastpath 2 to
increase a fair amount if you slow the packets down coming from the Sun 4
(aufs -S option) its just to fast a machine for a lowly old FastPath 2...


Mike Moya                                       moyman@ee.ecn.purdue.edu
Engineering Computer Network                    moyman!pur-ee
Purdue University