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Article #2Re: (?) help with a command decision
From: Lupe Christoph
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 09:57
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 09:57
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emurphy@cs.uno.edu (Edward Murphy) writes: >howdy. >i've got the chance to buy either Prestoserve OR Sun Network Co-Processor. >we are managing a Sun 690 MP with about 6 gigs (all totalled). anybody got >an opinion about either accelerator? If you are going to buy some fruit, do you better buy oranges or apples? :-) The PrestoServe accelerates NFS writes; something the NCP cannot do. The NCP removes protocol overhead from the CPU, something the PrestoServe cannot do. What is your bottleneck? -- | ...!unido!ukw!lupe (German EUNet, "bang") | Disclaimer: | | lupe@ukw.UUCP (German EUNet, domain) | As I am self-employed, | | suninfo!alanya!lupe (Sun Germany) | this *is* the opinion | | Res non sunt complicanda praeter necessitatem. | of my employer. |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!mica.inel.gov!ux1!fcom.cc.utah.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!male.EBay.Sun.COM!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!seven-up.East.Sun.COM!sungy!stasys!alanya!lupe From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: (?) help with a command decision Message-ID: <1992Oct27.095737.3250@ukw.uucp> Date: 27 Oct 92 09:57:37 GMT References: <1992Oct26.230440.19400@cs.uno.edu> Sender: uucp@stasys.sta.sub.org Organization: cic Lines: 21