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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.supranet.com!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!news.serv.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!peyto!thurlow From: thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) 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: 25 Jan 1996 06:45:46 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Lines: 26 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4e78uq$45k@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <4d9has$qo9@park.uvsc.edu> <4dp29j$8v8@park.uvsc.edu> <4ds3bu$55l@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4e6jlu$4rd@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: peyto.eng.sun.com Cc: Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2125 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2280 comp.unix.solaris:58544 comp.unix.aix:69709 In article <4e6jlu$4rd@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) wrote: >] What makes you think that client caching in NFS V3 is suddenly and >] miraculously legal according to the spec? Cache consistency has >] improved, but it isn't made perfect by any particular operation. >I don't think that. See my post quoting the Usenix papers. I saw; you quoted the NFS V2 spec, and drew incorrect inferences from it. Oh well. >I think it isn't fair to compare V3 on 5.x with V2 on 4.x to be >able to claim better performance. Well, you'll have to figure out how to measure this, since I don't have enough spare time to backport V3 to 4.x. Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@eng.sun.com There was something fishy about the butler. I think he was a Pisces, probably working for scale. -- Nick Danger, Third Eye