Coda File System

Re: Coda vs NFS benchmarks

From: Peter J. Braam <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:38:18 -0400 (EDT)
Yes, this is a known factor of 50 slower.  But try it after 

cfs wd (make your cache large first).  I think you'll be pretty impressed.

- Peter -



On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> 
> I forgot the coda untarring results.. I'ts pretty bad..
> 
> > For the untarring, coda was *much* slower. I'm assuming this is because
> > file creation has a lot of overhead and such.
> > 
> 
> > Untarring linux-2.1.121 on nfs:
> > 
> > [troybenj_at_mos11 test]$ time tar zxvf /tmp/linux-2.1.121.tar.gz  
> > 
> > 4.18user 3.97system 1:14.74elapsed 10%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> > 0inputs+0outputs (3163major+9197minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> > 
> 
> Untarring linux-2.1.121 on coda:
> 
> 4.44user 2.84system 1:00:55elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (206major+9197minor)pagefaults 0swaps  
> 
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Received on 1998-09-16 16:40:29