Has anyone done some serious testing of using a 5501 as an NFS server, obviously of moderate performance (the interfaces are obviously limited to 10 MByte/s), but of largish capacity?
I ran a tiny little test a few days ago, configuring the OpenBSD on my 5501 as a NFS server (no tuning whatsoever), using a 5.4K laptop disk and the OpenBSD FFS with soft updates, and with a Linux NFS 2/3 client, and it worked fine, with a read bandwidth (large files, large IOs) of 9 MByte/s (the file was probably in cache on the server already), and a write bandwidth of only 3 MByte/s. The limit doesn't seem to be CPU utilization, so most likely performance tuning (including suitable use of asynchronous writes) could bring the write bandwidth to near the 10 MByte/s limit too. I was thinking of putting a 750 GB or even 1 TB SATA disk on my 5501 (replacing the current small laptop disk), and use it as a file server for data that has to be available 24x7, but doesn't require great band- width. Since the Soekris already has to be powered up 24x7 (it is the router, firewall, AP, and server for all network-related services), adding slow NFS to it seems like a reasonable idea. Anyone see any problem with that? Is there a problem with attaching really large SATA disks to the 5501? -- Ralph Becker-Szendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] (408)395-1435 735 Sunset Ridge Road; Los Gatos, CA 95033 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
