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To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server 
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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>> Brian Tao said:
 > On Sun, 20 Aug 1995, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote:
 > > 
 > > Curious what  are  the actual numbers for your disk in the system running
 > > the NFS server?
 > 
 >     Numbers for the disk?  You mean like models numbers or performance
 > numbers or what?  They are 2-gig 7200 rpm drives of some sort, and I
 > get about 6.5MB/sec read/write to one and about 16MB/sec aggregate
 > read/write to three at once (two controllers in the SGI).
 
Curious then, where is the time being spend in the NFS code?

Given that we can drive the ethernet at near capacity and that the
disks are very fast . It pretty much leads me to believe that
the NFS code or protocol is the bottle neck.

	Amancio