From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 03:28:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10296 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 03:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from monk.via.net (monk.via.net [209.81.9.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA10291 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 03:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@monk.via.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by monk.via.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA18913 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 03:27:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe) From: Joe McGuckin Message-Id: <199808291027.DAA18913@monk.via.net> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 03:27:31 -0700 (PDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NFS performance questions X-Mailer: Ishmail 1.3.1-970608-bsdi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am considering re-arranging several servers (10) into a NFS cluster where each server has very little local disk. All the home directories and files would be moved onto a central NFS server. I think the benefit would be easier management & backups. Each server currently has between 9 and 18G of user disk space and iostat reports an average of 40 sectors per second of the user disks with bursts up to 2000 sps. Do you think that a FreeBSD NFS server can easily handle this amount of traffic? Has any benchmarking been performed on the NFS implementation? Thanks, Joe Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 1235 Pear Ave, Suite 107 Mountain View, CA 90403 Phone: 650-969-2203 Fax: 650-969-2124 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message