On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 10:29, Lex Stein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A while ago I built an NFS server in OCaml (BDBFS) and the performance
> stunk. It was 10x slower than the BSD in-kernel NFS server for metadata
> operations. There was some speculation about what was causing this
> slowness. It could have been a number of things. So in order for my
> Advisor to let me continue programming in OCaml, I set out to show that it
> wasn't due to the choice of OCaml.

Wouldn't you expect any userspace nfs server to be much slower than the
kernel-based implementation due to the overhead of all the extra
context-switching?

-- 
Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com>