On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > NFS is not as fast as a local disk, but it should not be that slow. >
I remember the first time I set up a NetApp fileserver,back in 1999. I expected that NFS would be slower than local disk, but I was hoping the performance would still be acceptable. We had one of the heaviest users run his overnight jobs both on his local workstation and on the NetApp NFS share to compare times, and we discovered that the NetApp's NFS share gave much *faster* throughput than his local disks. His local desktop was a high-end Sun Ultrasparc workstation with the RAM maxed out and with fast SAS disks, tuned for maximum performance, yet over a 100Mb Ethernet, the NetApp outperformed his workstation's local disks. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
