From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 2:47:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.esil.univ-mrs.fr (jiyu.esil.univ-mrs.fr [139.124.44.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBD537B9EE for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 02:47:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from la.firme@esil.univ-mrs.fr) Received: from esil.univ-mrs.fr (root@dopici.esil.univ-mrs.fr [139.124.32.246]) by mailhost.esil.univ-mrs.fr (8.9.3/ESIL/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id LAA61933 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:47:01 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <38C8D2A5.5B2A33D4@esil.univ-mrs.fr> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:47:01 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9rome?= OUFELLA Organization: ESIL X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Choices for big NFS server? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, We need to use FreeBSD as a quite big (~150GB) NFS server serving around 200 clients. The hardware is ready-to-go, and the installation time has come. Is it worth it to use FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (as I heard, becoming -RELEASE on next monday?), or is the NFS performance gain for such a server minimal compared to 3.4-STABLE ? In which case I'd rather use that (3.4-)stable branch on my server. The server is quite fast, using SMP, and has a bunch of FastEthernet adapters. thanks in advance. Jerome. Network Administration Team, ESIL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message