Re: Poor NFS client write performance Linux->Solaris

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
04 Jun 1999 18:36:04 +0200


otel@ce.chalmers.se writes:

> As these tests are quite crude -- i should have tried iozone, bonnie
> or smthing. This was just a fast, coffee-break type of benchmark (tm) -- i am
> all ears for proposals, but the figures are _so_ blatantly different...
>

As far as I've gathered, the results will depend quite heavily on the
disk access speeds (and hence your hardware) since the amount of
server-side readahead is supposed to depend on whether Solaris thinks
you're doing sequential block access or random access on the file.

Cheers,
Trond

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