From: Vincent Roqueta <vincent.roqueta@ext.bull.net>
Subject: Re: how much CPU/RAM does NFS need?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:02:26 +0100
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Le Lundi 28 Novembre 2005 14:48, Peter Schneider-Kamp a =E9crit=A0:
> Hi,
>
> we are about to purchase a file server for a 3,2 TerraByte disk array
> which has 2 GBit/s fibre channel connections. The server will
> have a PCI-X 133MHz fibre channel controller and a PCI-X 133MHz fibre
> ethernet card.
>
> How much CPU do we need to serve approx. 1 GBit/s of NFS from the
> disk array to the network?
I don't know the answer, but I think it lacks some important parameters :

How many clients do you have?
What kind of load clients do?

Vincent


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