[Bioclusters] OS X and NFS

[Michael Dinsmore]

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An Apple Systems Engineer has expressed to me that Apple is aware that 
their implementation of NFS is lackluster, esp wrt to speed;  and that 
they expect to improve it in 10.4 (due in 6-12 mos).

OTOH, serving over AFP, Apple's native filesharing protocol, I have 
gotten excellent speeds.  I understand that's not an option most of the 
time, but when it is feasible it's recommended.


On Jul 10, 2004, at 12:01 PM, bioclusters-request@bioinformatics.org 
wrote:

> The original query was on NFS, and how the Xserves were getting 12ish
> MB/s on GB.  This sounds suspiciously like someone somewhere is locked
> into 100 Mb/s mode on a port they think is 1000 Mb/s.  When running at
> full tilt, a good NFS server implementation on 100 Mb links can source
> about 11.7 - 12 MB/s.  You would see similar performance from rcp in
> this case.
>
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