Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.nfs:435 comp.sys.mips:165 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!gamiddleton From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.mips Subject: weird NFS speeds Message-ID: <29591@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 17:58:58 GMT Reply-To: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF/ICR] Lines: 20 I have been testing NFS performance on some workstations, using a program to write a 20-megabyte file with different-sized buffers. The speed listed for a Sparc1 when served by a Mips M/2000 is not a typo. It really is that slow. Anybody have any idea why? write speeds, in kilobytes/sec blocksize: 8K 4K 2K 1K server Mips M/2000: DECstation 3100 310 135 135 Mips RS2030 310 140 140 Sun Sparc1 9 108 95 145 server Sun 4/280: DECstation 3100 79 59 53 59 Mips RS2030 85 54 49 40 Sun Sparc1 82 67 62 62