Accepted.

You can probly account anywhere from 15-30 seconds for the RAM count at bootup.

Why we count this..I dunno, but two minutes seems excessive with what Ive been used to in the field and as a customer.

The more CIFS share you have..the longer it takes to get totally up..depends how quick your PDC responds, the more errors in your exports and hosts files (and DNS) there are will hold up the initial exportfs -a when nfs comes on, if you have an open loop FCAL adapter (one not being used) that will add a 10second delay in booting, in a failover situation the MAC address hashing thru your switched network could hold up services..etc.

All things being equal, An F760 can be online serving data within a minute of a 'reboot' command WITH memory count.

-----Original Message----- From: Bennett Todd [mailto:bet@rahul.net] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:09 PM To: jeff.mohler@netapp.com Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Linux-NFS list recommended I post here -- RE: NetApp versus L inux

2000-07-21-13:45:38 jeff.mohler@netapp.com:

You miss that it could take 5 minutes, in the situation of a core dump.

This is a rather rare ocurrance however.

So 5 minutes may be rare. But Bruce also said that 2 minutes is unlikely quick.

This is a radical change from the old line of 45 seconds is so reliable that account reps will happily bet a contract on it. A sad change, too.

-Bennett