On Mon, 27 Feb 1995, Quinn Sloan wrote:
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> then it takes over 30 minutes to perform the same writing.
> I am using two sparc 10's in this case running SunOS
> release 4.1.3 and NFS and f77. The times that I've
> given are really approximate, but from my experience,
> the ratio of (time using one machine) / (time using 2 machines)
> is significantly greater than the ratio
> (disk write) / (ethernet + disk write)
> at least for the type of simple I/O operations that I'm
> used to.
>
> Can you tell me if its normal for netcdf to take a long
> time to write across the ethernet, and if there are any
> common pitfalls that people run into when trying to
> do so? I realize that this might be dependent on
> my code, so if it would help you to see some of the
> netcdf call's that I'm using, please let me know.
Hmm. I guess it could depend on how busy your network was...
It's an interesting question. I don't have the answer, but
I'd be interested to hear what kind of responses you get.
Mike
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