Sorry to be jumping back to this late but....
My understanding is the when using an NAS, particularly
when using multiple (Bonded) 100 Mb NICs or a Gb link, the access
time will improve significantly. The NAS disk subsystem is
much faster by default and when it is given a large enough pipe
to the application server it screams.
This can also be accomplished through fiber channel.
Were you accessing a shared drive on another NT machine?
An NAS OS is tuned to perform this function where NT
certainly is not.
John Miller
SAMnet
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "STEVEN MOORE (IFL)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 5:37 AM
>> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMAIL 6.03 How do I Config to load balance
>behind
>> a Cisco 6509
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > An additional problem to think of when using the proposed
>configurations
>> is
>> > that when using the network layer for storage IMail and
>disk access in
>> > general is much slower, we saw performance drop to about
>20% when using
>a
>> > network share, and that was to a drive on the same
>machine. Also the
>> > processor load increased significantly.
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
>> > Steven Moore
>> > Internet Development Engineer
>> > Research Machines
>> > +44 1235 823522
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
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