I think this gets beaten every six months, but I wonder if there are any current metrix that compare openafs and cifs when working on standard 'office' style documents. I'm interested in performance on
first open, subsequent open of same file save I know there is huge variability between applications so that a Word document may open much fast than a wordperfect doc... so this type of measure may not even be possible to make accurately. I'm just curious if anyone as tried, and what the results were. We are finding that cifs performance is very BAD over a WAN and I'm guessing that the checkpoint vpn software the we MUST run is a contributing factor. We can't trust cifs over the wider internet without vpn. We can trust afs. But there are still some microsoft diehards that just don't think anything else could work. My assumptions are the afs should perform better becuase 1) we don't need to tunnel through a vpn 2) cache manager should make these work better over a WAN where we don't control the end to end bandwidth -- i.e. over the commodity internet. Since we need to support roaming faculty that connect in hotel lobbies, conferences, etc., we need something that is going to be fairly tolerant of changing network conditions. -- David Bear phone: 602-496-0424 fax: 602-496-0955 College of Public Programs/ASU University Center Rm 622 411 N Central Phoenix, AZ 85007-0685 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
