On 2010-07-22, at 11:40, David Howells wrote: > Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> As it can been seen, the performance while reading when data is cache >> hot (disk) is not great as the network link is a Gigabit ethernet (with >> server having working set in memory) which is mostly expected. > > That's what I see with NFS and AFS too. > >> (I could not get access to a slower network (say 100 Mb/s) where the real >> performance boost could be evident). More interesting than a slow network is testing with more clients. 10 clients should be able to get 10x the read performance from the client-local cache, probably more than the server's peak disk/network bandwidth. Cheers, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html