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From: grant@steven.COM (grant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: NFS Performance Problems
Keywords: NFS
Message-ID: <77@steven.COM>
Date: 11 Aug 89 22:50:11 GMT
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Organization: Sierra Geophysics Inc., Kirkland, Wa.
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      HELP!  Once upon a time, we had an environment,  consisting of 
   Sun 3/xxx and running Sun O/S 3.x and NFS.  Performance was very 
   good then.  Our benchmarks showed that NFS performed favorably 
   as compared to physical disks.  Since that time, we have added
   Sun 4/xxx, Tektronix unix workstations, Intergraphs, a Stellar,
   Hp 800's ....  Now I find the network is painfully slow.  I have 
   checked for network saturation, and it doesn't seem to be a problem.
   I don't know what to try.  Is there any information available on
   tuning a NFS environment?  How many disks can I reasonable cross 
   mount.  Are there any good tricks?  
-- 
Grant Peterson   
Sierra Geophysics, Inc .
Voice: (206) 822-5200
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