[Discuss] Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:16 AM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

>
> NFS is not as fast as a local disk, but it should not be that slow.
>

I remember the first time I set up a NetApp fileserver,back in 1999. I
expected
that NFS would be slower than local disk, but I was hoping the performance
would still be acceptable.

We had one of the heaviest users run his overnight jobs both on his local
workstation and on the NetApp NFS share to compare times, and we discovered
that the NetApp's NFS share gave much *faster* throughput than his local
disks.

His local desktop was a high-end Sun Ultrasparc workstation with the RAM
maxed out and with fast SAS disks, tuned for maximum performance, yet
over a 100Mb Ethernet, the NetApp outperformed his workstation's local
disks.


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