From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 00:08:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA13840 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 00:08:40 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA13814 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 00:08:16 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA26747; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 15:07:28 +0800 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 15:07:27 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Joerg Wunsch Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server In-Reply-To: <199508190957.LAA03274@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Aug 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > > It's been just a ten-liner or so to convince the system dedicating 36 > out of 64 MB for the file system buffer cache (after getting some > hints from David). The remaining RAM still proves sufficient for two > concurrent compilations of large and bloated C++/X11 applications, > btw. :-) > > I have no idea if similar tricks would be possible under FreeBSD 2. What are the tricks involved? I would be interested in putting together a fast 486 PCI box with 48 megs of RAM and seeing just how well it can handle NFS requests from 120+ simultaneous users spread out over about 20 gigs of disk. What kind of performance are you getting out of your 1.1.5.1 machine? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org