Subject: Re: nfs tuninng with raid
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5llen?= <pollen@astrakan.hig.se>
From: Jared D . McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/10/2001 11:53:11
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:07:59PM +0200, Pållen wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 
> > 	Hello folks.  I've been trying to increase the performance of the
> > box I'm using as a large RAID NFS server and have a few questions.
> > I seem to be able to serve up about 160Kbytes/sec to about 8 clients
> 
> news(petter): expr 8 \* 160
> 1280
> 
> How could you possibly push more data trhough a lousy 100Mbit nic?

1280Kbytes/sec is a bit over 1 Mbyte/sec.
100Mbits/sec is a bit over 12 Mbytes/sec.

Seems like there's room for a lot more data... considering even my lowest end
10Mbit ethernet cards can do over 900Kbytes/sec..

Jared