Ben Rockwood wrote: > I was doing some NFS benchmarking over the weekend with undesirable > results. I thought that I'd use a share from tmpfs in order to contrast > my results. I expected line speed NFS performance... but the results > were horrible, far slower than any disk-based NFS benchmark. > > Is there some reason why tmpfs NFS shares would preform horribly? Or, > as I expected, should I be able to get a super-fast NFS share? > > More details regarding system configuration and some stats(vmstat/iostat/mpstat) would be helpful in explaining why.
tmpfs can perform much slower when the system runs low on memory and the file data is swapped out. -Prakash. > benr. > > _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
