Number: 1459

Date: 19-Jun-84 16':15':58

Submitter: Le.pasa

Source: Christopher Schmidt <SCHMIDT@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>

Subject: COPYFILE from/to NS fileserver could be faster

Assigned To: 

Attn: vanMelle, Release

Status: Open

In/By: 

Problem Type: Performance

Impact: Moderate

Difficulty: Hard

Frequency: Intermittent

Priority: Hopefully

System: Communications

Subsystem: NS Protocols

Machine: 

Disk: 

Lisp Version: Fugue6

Source Files: 

Microcode Version: 

Memory Size: 

File Server: 

Server Software Version: 

Disposition: [COPYFILE is so much faster now than it was before... I changed the "is to slow" to "could be faster", and decreased the priority.]'
["Masinter" "18-Sep-84 21':38':08" Subject': Attn': Impact':(Serious->Moderate) Frequency':(Everytime->Intermittent) Disposition':]

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From': Christopher Schmidt <SCHMIDT@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>'
Subject': COPYFILE from/to NS fileserver'
To': 1100support.pasa'
cc': Lane@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA, Spurgeon@SU-CSLI.ARPA, Yeager@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA'
'
	I sat down today to make some benchmarks of your 8037 file'
server (the one with the twin T300''s) and was appalled by the poor'
throughput.  Using Interlisp-D to COPYFILE a 2.5 mb sysout to or from'
the 8037 took over an hour.  Copying that same sysout with the'
installlisptool took only 1 minute and 14 seconds.  ^T showed that'
COPYFILE was using \SLOWCOPYBYTES.  Slow indeed!  This is in Fugue6.'
I hope that the next release uses "reasonablecopybytes."'
--Christopher'
P.S.  We don''t have an 8037, so this isn''t really a complaint you have'
to worry about.  I''m surprised your 8037 owners stand for it, though.'
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Workaround: 

Test Case: 

Edit-By: Masinter

Edit-Date: 18-Sep-84 21':38':09