Re: NFS slowness

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From: John Hascall
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:56

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weltman@adoc.xerox.com summarizes:
}  I received a number of informative responses to my question
}about why large NFS writes are so slow ...

}From auspex.com!guy Thu Dec 31 11:08:24 1992
...
}The Prestoserve board acts as "some form of storage that survives a
}server crash", but can be written to faster than can a disk ...

}"Niche" in the hardware sense, or the marketplace sense?  They offer
}both VMEbus and SBus versions for Suns; I don't know if their DEC
}version is a Turbochannel board or not.

As I understand it (we don't have any, we use the evil asynch hack*),
it sits in one of the memory board slots.

* I guess you could say Liebert makes ours ;-)

John
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John Hascall                   ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
Systmes Software Engineer
Project Vincent
Iowa State University Computation Center  +  Ames, IA  50011  +  515/294-9551

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