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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD suitable as Fileserver OS? Date: 16 Jun 1996 08:52:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4q0i0c$h0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31C1E470.7BBF@blackwhite.com> <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960614225531.2783B-100000@clifford.livenet.net> <Dt2GM0.29C@midway.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu (Steve Farrell) wrote: > some people have replied with answers about freebsd FTP server, but i'd > like to hear some comments on NFS server -- these are quite different > things! They are not too different. You're benefiting from a good VM subsystem with its merged VM/buffer cache that lets your file system buffer cache grow up to a considerable amount of RAM if the machine is otherwise idle (i.e. does only/mostly serve NFS files). You are also benefiting from a good system load behaviour, i.e. you can start a bunch of concurrent nfsiod's to support outbound connections, where the context switch overhead is not too heavy. Finally, you can rely on a networking subsystem that has already left its ``green years'' far behind. Of course, if you put a NE2000 card into the machine, everything is moot. :-) For ISA, WD8013 or a Lance-based card are good choices, for PCI, everybody will point you to the DEC-21040-based cards which are produced by several vendors. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)