Performance of the V storage server
David R. Cheriton, Paul Roy · 1985
Network file access efficiency is a key issue in a distributed system's performance, especially when many of the network nodes are diskless and rely on a shared network file server. We have designed and implemented a file server that uses the network interprocess communication of the V kernel for file access. This paper describes the basic design of the file server with emphasis on the performance-critical areas. We also give its performance under a variety of workloads and compare these measurements with results predicted by other modeling studies.