On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Sims, Aaron wrote:
This is an apples to oranges test.
Yep, but it is interesting that even in such an unbalanced comparison, the Netapp still manages to fare quite admirably.
Sure, streaming to/from RAID0 will always kick ass. However, who really runs RAID0 these days???
I lied when I said this biller application was the only thing we ran on local disk. Our news servers also run on local disk. In that situation, we're not concerned enough about reliability to spend the premium on Netapps. We just wanted fast, cheap multi-terabyte storage.
Ok, given the environment you just described, you could enable a undocumented feature within the solaris mount_nfs command, 'llock'.
Ahhhhhh... *that's* what it is! I had a vague memory that this was possible under Solaris, but never could find a reference to it. I'm re-running the biller database benchmark now, and I am seeing about 16% *better* performance than on the Veritas RAID-0 filesystem. Sir, you may just have sold another filer with that. I'll be sure to get my sales rep to take you out to the most expensive restaurant in Toronto, should you ever come up this way. ;-)