ibmch@garnet.berkeley.edu (06/24/89)
Has anyone been using IBM's NFS for AIX (Version 2.2.1 is required) yet? If so, what has been your experience? Thanks.
dzoey@umd5.umd.edu (Joe Herman) (06/25/89)
In article <25727@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ibmch@garnet.berkeley.edu writes: > Has anyone been using IBM's NFS for AIX (Version 2.2.1 is required) > yet? If so, what has been your experience? Thanks. Yes, I've been using it to test our PC's NFS implementation. It seems to work okay, if not all that quickly (granted, I run NFS through an ethernet <-> token-ring AT router sometimes). One annoying thing is that mount points are minidisks and not directories Another annoying thing is that the documentation is somewhat lacking. Joe Herman PC/IP @ UMd dzoey@terminus.umd.edu -- "Everything is wonderful until you know something about it."
karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (06/25/89)
In article <25727@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ibmch@garnet.berkeley.edu () wrote: >Has anyone been using IBM's NFS for AIX (Version 2.2.1 is required) >yet? If so, what has been your experience? Thanks. It works. I like it. I can cross-mount partitions with DEC and Apple systems, no problem. Running a common source partition on a 9332 SCSI drive, our system bogs down seriously when we load it heavily. When this happens, we might have four or five users on different RTs doing compiles on the same partition, and a couple of background jobs moving files into or out of our SCCS archive directory on a different partition of the 9332. The batch checkin/checkout jobs sometimes seem to stop dead for twenty or thirty seconds at a time, and take approximately forever to run. The server is a 125 with 12 MB of memory, running eight each nfsd and biod processes. Can anyone offer some pointers on how to tune NFS so it has enough system resources to do its job? Chuck Karish {decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish (415) 493-7277 karish@forel.stanford.edu