Johan Corveleyn wrote on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 00:33:59 +0200:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Also, has anyone tested this on an NFS-working copy? Or CIFS?
> >
> > AFAIK, no one is doing any performance testing on NFS or CIFS. I have
> > repeatedly invited users to run the benchmarks I wrote in this
> > configuration but no one has bothered. This leads me to believe it is
> > not important to people.
>
> Maybe not important enough to the few people who build trunk (or
> alpha-1) themselves (or rather: not important enough relative to the
> required effort at this time). But that doesn't mean it isn't
> important to a lot of users (okay, it will be a minority, but still).
>
> > I tried to do it myself, but the NFS performance in my environment was
> > so slow that I did not have the patience to wait for even the 1.6
> > version of the tests to finish.
>
> I'd like to test NFS performance in our corporate environment
> (Solaris10/sparc server talking to NAS over NFS). But I don't have a
> build environment for that system. If someone can build alphas or
> trunk or whatever for Solaris/sparc, let me know. I'll try to give it
> a run.
>
Could you cross-compile?
(there is http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~milom/cross-compile.html, and
probably some others too further down in the search results)
I wonder if infra could help here.
> --
> Johan
Received on 2011-06-15 00:56:39 CEST