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Suns version of NFS is threaded; is HP-UX 11.00 NFS PV3 threaded?

April 26, 2017HP-UX NFS Sun threaded version

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Suns version of NFS is threaded; is HP-UX 11.00 NFS PV3 threaded?

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No, it is not desired. HP-UX NFS performance is considerably faster than Sun’s implementation, despite the perceived threaded advantage; and threads add some overhead in management and scheduling. Publicly-available benchmarks such as SPEC SFS show that Sun’s threaded NFS is clearly slower.