> 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.
That's impressive, especially over 100M ethernet. > > > -- > 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
