brad@optilink.UUCP (Brad Yearwood) (11/10/88)
What kinds of systems are known to perform particularly well as NFS servers? Our Sun 3/280 can handle a certain number of diskless 3/50s and other clients depending upon how actively each is accessing files and paging partitions. But if certain types of things are happening, particularly if dump tapes are being run (either for the server's own disk or on behalf of a tapeless client with local disk), the 3/50s can become almost unusable. Though something might be gained by changing from the original Xylogics to a more modern disk controller, I can't help but think that a really good server machine should have an I/O architecture more along the lines of a mainframe, but without necessarily having to have the hottest central processor(s). What's available that could support maybe 8-10 software people on 3/50s, a few causual PC-NFS users, and several hardware design workstations sloshing around megabyte design databases, and still have some room for growth? Brad Yearwood Optilink Corp. {voder!kontron, pyramid!kontron, pixar}!optilink!brad Petaluma, CA