On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:38:42AM -0600, Greg Knaddison wrote: > I think you could generalize the question and get the same answer: > > Is NFS ever higher performance than HTTP? I thought that the answer > was that HTTP wins almost every (maybe every) time. I suspect (but do not know) that this is correct. NFS is, after all, a filesystem (sort-of) and so includes a whole bunch of other stuff that HTTP doesn't have to worry about. If you really want to test, though, you should probably put a few files server that is both NFS mounted and running an HTTP server, then run a small python script using urlgrabber to fetch files repeatedly. That will give you the the answer you want. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G
