Re: RFC 1037 NFILE implementations around?

On Sep 29, 8:26 pm, George Neuner <gneun...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


A Sun 3 workstation.  It was a relatively low powered 68020 system,
woefully short of RAM but with a fast network interface.  I can attest
that NFS from a 3/120 to a fast server was frequently faster than
local file access.

I don't recall the 3/120 being offered generally though ... I thought
Sun only sold that particular version to colleges.

This was in academia. But I may also be confused about numbers - it
was a long time ago. The storage box was a 3/180 (which later became
a 3/280 by some kind of brain swap, and may have been by then) and the
client would have been one of the deskside VME machines - my memory
says 3/120 but perhaps it was really a 3/160 (or even a 3/260).


Yup.  Waste of time unless you can isolate the component you're
talking about.

I agree in general that I/O performance is complex and not well
summarised by "x is faster than y" generalisations. Some times it can
be however, and this is one of those cases: LMFS performance, even to
fast disks (by the standard of the day) really sucked compared to what
Suns could do (and do for far less money...).

(Rainer's comment about NFS being faster than LMFS on Symbolics
machines is also likely correct - I don't recall ever trying it (until
much later, anyway). Certainly it used to be the case that NFS
performance was often much faster than local disk performance for
desktop Suns of that era.)
.

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