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Message-ID: <20080731180600.GA8732@nibiru.local>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:06:00 +0200
From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@...ux.de>
To: linux kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: high latency NFS
* Michael Shuey <shuey@...due.edu> wrote:
> I'm currently toying with Linux's NFS, to see just how fast it can go in a
> high-latency environment. Right now, I'm simulating a 100ms delay between
> client and server with netem (just 100ms on the outbound packets from the
> client, rather than 50ms each way). Oddly enough, I'm running into
> performance problems. :-)
NFS is *very bad* for latent links.
Try 9p with an little metadata-caching proxy in the middle ;-P
cu
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