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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!newshost.vu.nl!cs.vu.nl!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 17 Jan 1996 10:21:14 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 37 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dif2a$6ea@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4d43bt$es8@park.uvsc.edu> <4d5vhg$38p@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <4dbun0$j2f@park.uvsc.edu> <4de3ml$naq@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4dgpti$rnv@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1895 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2040 comp.unix.solaris:56926 comp.unix.aix:68468 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >If this is true (it is disabled on the machine I can get access >to, and I rememebr specifically disabling it -- it may have been >enables by one of three other people), then I will retract my >reliability claim made on the basis of assuming server cacheing. ] How did you disable it and how did you check that it is disabled on the machine you have access to? >Stipulating this, however, I once again request proof that the >5.x implementation is higher performance than the 4.x, and >further that any performance difference is not simply the result >of the 4.x driver's misue of the Lance buffers, as described in >the Solaris 1.x->2.x upgrade/release notes. LADDIS benchmark results? And please point me to the notes on the "3Mb/s le limit" you stae was in SunOS 4. (Since you can easily get tcp throughput will in excess of 3Mb/s on SunOS 4 w/ le, I seriously doubt that claim) >I find anything other than a marginal performance claim to be >difficult to support without resorting to server caching or >some other "speedup" technique which requires violation of >the protocol spec (like the 4.x and 5.x client caching). LADDIS doesn't benefit from client side caching. (The LADDIS benchmark generates NFS requests itself, it doesn't use a OS client version) Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.