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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:46:39 +0100
From:      Bernard Dugas <bernard@dugas-family.org>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Optimising NFS for system files
Message-ID:  <4959DFEF.5090407@dugas-family.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081229230115.F68805@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <20081216094719.EDCEE1065675@hub.freebsd.org> <495930E4.1030501@dugas-family.org> <20081229230115.F68805@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> i can see a reading speed difference 4 time slower on client than on 
>> server (time tar -cf - /usr > /dev/null).
>>
>> I will play with jumbo MTU for network performance, but would anybody 
>> know if i can ask system files NFS exports to stay in server memory ? 
>> I have less than 2Go to share and 2GO DDR2 is affordable.
> 
> you don't have to.

So you din't think that if all files are already in RAM on server, i 
will  save the drive access time ?

Or do you think the NFS network access is so much slow that the disk 
access time is just marginal ?

Do you think i should use something more efficient than NFS ?

Best regards,
-- 
Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770



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