----- Original Message ----- From: Jay Orr orrjl@stl.nexen.com To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 8:47 AM Subject: NVRAM memory
Here's a question - we had to replace some parts in our F330, and ended up only putting 2 of the 4 simms from the NVRAM card back onto the card. What kind of performance does more/less NVRAM have on a filer?
Basically, it will effect your write performance. Less NVRAM means it can cache fewer writes, thus having to write to disk more often. It could also mean that disk allocation will be a little less efficient and possibly increase the chance of disk failure over the long run. (But this last part is purely speculative and nothing to worry about.) It also has some minor performance impact in other situations but otherwise it is negligible.
If you don't really notice the difference on your filer, chances are it is not often very heavily loaded and doesn't experience a lot of heavy write traffic.
Bruce