[PVFS-users] Poor performance

[Jon Combe]

> Comparing the time to operate on 1.5 GBytes locally vs. operating on that
> same 1.5 GBytes remotely isn't exactly a fair comparison.   Perhaps I'm
> making a bad assumption about your topology, but you have clients and
> servers on separate machines, right?  If so, there's no way around the
> fact you have to move 1.5 GBytes over the network in the pvfs case.

Yes thats right the client and server are on different machines. As a
comparison I transferred the file to a disk mounted via NFS. It does
the count in 4 seconds.

Jon