Regards, managers
Looking at the recent NFSV3 performance discussion I have a comment and/or a
question or two:
What are the performance benefits from NFS3 that are emphasized in every
Release Notes since v3.0 when sysadmins repeatedly proves that this is not
so ?
This goes for both reading, writing and attribute lookups. I would like to
see some hard facts about this, preferrably in form of a pointer to a paper
containing benchmarks.
I have several times reported to DEC (Norway) a current problem we are
facing: IRIX 6.4/6.2 clients SOMETIMES (not always) does not get an answer
from a DEC NFS server when doing attribute lookups (getattrs) using nfs3.
Any idea why ?
This problem is VERY annoying because users running applications that uses
file filters when requesting inputfiles does not get to run the application
because it cannot 'see' the files in filefilter directory. 'tcpdump' shows
that the getattr packets reach the server but nothing is ever returned. The
workaround is that the user 'touch'es the directory, this make everything
look OK.
I too believe that nfs performance is low using nfs3. Anyone experienced
otherwise ?
Do SUN/AIX/IRIX nfs3 servers outperform DECs and are they more willing to
play along with 'alien' nfs3 architectures ?
TIA
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Received on Wed Jun 03 1998 - 16:25:14 NZST