From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 10 09:51:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23285 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:51:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles244.castles.com [208.214.165.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23280 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:51:25 -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 JAA03856; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:50:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811101750.JAA03856@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Garance A Drosihn cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple NFS ACCESS caching, call for testers In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:13:18 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:50:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 2:02 AM -0800 11/10/98, Mike Smith wrote: > > The attached patch adds a trivial cache for NFS ACCESS operations, > > which may provide a moderate to substantial performance improvement > > in some cases. > > > > If you have an NFS v3 server that you beat heavily on, I'd love to > > know whether these changes make any difference to you. > > Are these meant for the server-side, or for the client side? The patches are for clients only. > Ie, would you want to see a test of someone installing this on a > FreeBSD-based NFS server (which may in fact be serving files to > machines running other OS's), or on FreeBSD clients? (or only if > freebsd is the OS on both sides?) The server is irrelevant, as long as it supports NFS v3. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message