On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:23:36PM +0100, David Murphy wrote:
> Quoting <20010326233546.G1466 at bagend.local>
> by Niall O Broin <niall at magicgoeshere.com>:
>> > It's running knfsd and I just copied 40GB of files to it getting a
> > throughput of 2MB per second on a 100Mb network - 20% of wire speed
> > is OK for NFS in my experience (I've seen write speeds of well < 100
> > KB/s onto Sun servers on 10Mb networks).
>> What kind of results do you get with, for example, 20MB of data in a
> single file? I can write such a file at 500KB/s to an NFS export on an
> Ultra 30 running Solaris on 100BaseT with an SS20 clone running
> OpenBSD on 10BaseT as the client over a no-name 10/100 switch. Using a
> PC running FreeBSD on 100BaseT as the client, I can write it at 4072KB/s.
Doing exactly that i.e. a single 20M file I g0t 4390 KB/s which is somewhat
better. The 40GB was using find|cpio to copy ~103000 files, and I just used
a simple cp to copy 308 files for a total of 76728KB and got only 1857KB/s
throughput. There seems to be a reasonable amount of per file overhead.
Regards,
Niall
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