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Re: Performance Enhancements to NFS client.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Mon Jan 29 08:09:47 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:02:45 +0100
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
To: Lincoln Myers <lim@csua.berkeley.edu>
CC: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Lincoln Myers's message of Sat, 27 Jan 1996 14:29:30 -0800
Lincoln Myers <lim@csua.berkeley.edu>
> Arnt Gulbrandsen (agulbra@troll.no) says:
> > For me, it boiled down to:
> >
> > No enhancements are worthwhile except changing the buffer cache so it
> > can cache NFS.
>
> Including, say, multiple reads or writes at once (e.g. for a 64k read
> sending up to 8 read requests out in a row rather than send one, wait
> for reply, send next, ...)? That's what I was going to focus on.
Where were you going to store the other seven until the user wants to
read that data?
Btw, I consider it slightly bad form to quote privat mail on lists or
newsgroups.
--Arnt
