era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) (04/19/91)
A while back, I asked a question about NFS benchmarking, and particularly about defeating caching mechanisms. At that time I was not aware that the Sun NFS implementation includes a "noac" parameter (see mount(8) man page), at least in 4.0.3 and later. Thus it is apparently possible to do NFS benchmarking without having to copy large dummy files, etc. to clear the cache. Just mount with "noac" if that parm exists in the implementation you are testing. -- era@ncar.ucar.edu