Re: high load, no bottleneck

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

crap, apologies for the non checked return address.

In the interest of trying to make a relevant reply - doesn't nfs3
support differing COMMIT sync levels which could be leveraged for
this? (assuming your server is stable :)

<aside>
I recall using NFS for file storage at Dreamworks in the late '90s and
discovering the reason that the SGI file servers boxes outperformed
everything else is that they lied to the client and indicated data has
been synced to disk as soon as it hit memory.

Wonderful performance feature... until someone insisted in putting
known buggy ATM drivers into production which could give up to a GB of
lost data when the fileservers paniced...
</aside>