NFS benchmarking

[Edward Glowacki]

OK, 2 systems here, both doing NFS filesharing:
Network Appliance w/ 10k RPM fibrechannel disks
PIII 866 w/ hardware RAID and 10k RPM SCSI 160 disks (running FreeBSD 4.2)

How the heck do I benchmark the damn things?  Does it even matter?

Basically the question is, is the PIII 866 setup sufficient to more
or less max out a gigabit link sharing files via NFS (assuming it's
connected directly to a sufficient number of 100mbit clients), or
do we require a Network Appliance for the I/O performance?  My own
thought is that the PIII will hold its own if we pop a gigabit card
in there.

So anyone know of a good NFS performance benchmark?


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Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Computer Laboratory, Technical Support Services		
Michigan State University