Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist | From | Jason Merrill <> | Date | 13 Jun 1996 18:00:09 -0700 |
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ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes: > > > WISHLIST FOR LINUX 2.2.0 > > Now that Linux 2.0 is out, it's time for another round of Request For > Features.
NFS write clustering/coalescing/biod, OH PLEASE
As far as I'm concerned, this is the main feature Linux lacks relative to other Unices, and makes life in a heterogeneous NFS network extremely painful.
Sparc 1 running SunOS 4 server: Linux 2.0 client, iozone with 512 byte blocks:
IOZONE performance measurements: 11933 bytes/second for writing the file <------- ** OUCH! ** 800439 bytes/second for reading the file
Linux 2.0 client, iozone with 8192 byte blocks:
IOZONE performance measurements: 119837 bytes/second for writing the file 825650 bytes/second for reading the file
SunOS 4 client, iozone with 512 byte blocks:
IOZONE performance measurements: 138104 bytes/second for writing the file 4714672 bytes/second for reading the file
SunOS 4 client, iozone with 8192 byte blocks:
IOZONE performance measurements: 163806 bytes/second for writing the file 13875189 bytes/second for reading the file
Jason
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