On Nov 15, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Michael Monasco wrote:
Folks,
There's some blurbage on Apple's marketing info about Leopard
regarding fixes and updates to all three of the file sharing
protocols (AFP, SMB and NFS). In the past, NFS in particular has
been pretty bad.
Has anyone done any testing on any of these or NFS in particular
with Leopard? Is there any data out there supporting or refuting
Apple's claim that these are all much faster and more robust in
Leopard?
Well the changes in the kernel and filesystem alone would yield
performance improvements alone that would affect AFP, SMB and NFS.
Beyond that specific performance metrics for any of these services is
going to be load dependent. As load increases performance will
decline, so defining the "sweet spot" against the spot which your
load is under is going to be paramount. Blind tests aren't going to
be useful.
-dhan
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Dan Shoop
Computer Scientist
iWiring / U.S. Technical Services
