[2171] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
AFS server performance/benchmarks on DS5000s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mgrmja@po.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu)
Mon Nov 8 13:40:26 1993
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 11:28:14 -0500
From: mgrmja@po.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
To: info-afs@transarc.com
Reply-To: Michael.Allard@rose-hulman.edu
Greetings.
We are considering replacing our [slow-ish] NeXT AFS servers with DECstation
5000 model 200 (or possibly 240) machines. We can afford to do a 1-for-1
replacement of NeXTs with 5000/200s, and maybe a 2-for-1 replacement with the
/240s. We have ~250 NeXT machines as clients.
Does anyone out there have any performance numbers for these classes of
machines? For example, I suppose I would need # of RPC calls handled per
second for such things as stats, read/write locks, etc. Also, just raw AFS
I/O numbers.
Alternately (or in addition), any pointers to any software that would perform
this benchmarking? I will have a /240 to test for a week and a /200 to test
also for a week, so I'd like to be able to come up with some numbers in order
to justify this upgrade.
Thanks in advance for any help on this.
--
Michael J. Allard --- Workstation Manager, Waters Computing Center
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 812-877-8273
E-Mail: <Michael.Allard@rose-hulman.edu> Fax: 812-877-3198
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