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To: DownSouth who wrote (25218)	5/23/2000 4:12:00 PM
From: alankeister	Respond to of 54805

WRT throughput, here is a later NetBench result showing througput approaching 40MB/Sec and 58MB/Sec using filers. If this (http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3056.html) is the test you are speaking of, it looks like they were using two Filers, each with two Gigabit Ethernet network segments which I think are 100 MB/s. So they had a theoretical network capacity of 400 MB/s but were only able to achieve 58 MB/s throughput or 29 MB/s per Filer. I thought that was pretty darn good but until I read this: NetBench does not measure response time, nor does it take into account client-side caching. If they don't consider client-side caching or even report the cache hit ratio, this test is pretty bogus. They could easily have a 90% cache hit ratio on an automated test. - Alan