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Have icl sparc teamsever and 750i teamserver running svr4 and SCO respectively. both on same dual 10T network.
NFS mounting of disks between machines runs like a dog - slower the telnet / tcpip connections.
No possibility of introducing a dedicated network for NFS links, or introducing 100T cards - due to software conflicts with faster cards. Any views on how to speed the connections up?
NFS mounting of disks between machines runs like a dog - slower the telnet / tcpip connections.
No possibility of introducing a dedicated network for NFS links, or introducing 100T cards - due to software conflicts with faster cards. Any views on how to speed the connections up?
alextr
Yoy may use a switch, instead of hub, to have interconnection in LAN between involved machine.
What version of SCO? There are some patches that address NFS on SCO.
see url
http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html
for information on how to tune your systems to get the best throughput on your network..
http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html
for information on how to tune your systems to get the best throughput on your network..
ASKER
http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html does not cover SCO or SVR4
What version of SCO are you using and what patches have you already applied. There are only a couple of NFS tuning parameters that may need adjusting. Are you using 3.2 or OSR5? If you are using OSR5 5.0.4 then make sure you have applied oss469c. It made a world of difference in NFS performance on my SCO boxes.
SCO Openserver or SCO Unixware? Which version?
How big is the mount filesystem?
How big is the mount filesystem?
If it turns out that it's not a configuration issue and it's a network contention/throughput issue you could try
the following relatively low cost approach:
add another 10baseT interface to each of the machines,
connect them to each other via a cross-over cable and
configure them for full-duplex operation.
This way they would have a dedicated 10 Mbps (well... ~7Mbps actual throughput) link each way.
the following relatively low cost approach:
add another 10baseT interface to each of the machines,
connect them to each other via a cross-over cable and
configure them for full-duplex operation.
This way they would have a dedicated 10 Mbps (well... ~7Mbps actual throughput) link each way.
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