From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 30 15:40:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04676 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:40:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp7.portal.net.au [202.12.71.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04634 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:40:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06488; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:38:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811302338.PAA06488@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Diskless Workstations In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:06:08 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:38:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> It seems that running diskless has a serious advantage of using the same > >> disk space for all of the programs that all the users need. 100baseT can > >> compete with UW-SCSI bit for bit on bandwidth. > > > >No it can't. And NFS doesn't compete for latency. But many users > >don't need that sort of filesystem throughput. > > If 100 Mbps => 80 Mbps then 100bT is as good or better than UW-SCSI on > bandwidth. This is what I based my statement on. It appears that I have a > concept error somehow. The numbers look right to me. Can someone steer me > straight? Mb != MB. Wide SCSI at 40MHz gives 80MB/sec. 100Mbps ethernet may give you as much as 9MB/sec over NFS (if you're very lucky). > Thanks for the insight from all who replied. I sent that email some time > ago. Is the list only now receiving it? No, I'm just working through the backlog that a week at Comdex built up, and attacking some more of my outstanding backlog. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message