Performace & NFS Mount

mjacobson · Post by **mjacobson** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:21 am

Do you know if Webinator in either the walk or the search would suffer any performance issues if the database file system went through an NFS mount?

I am supporting a few large walks and my local disk space is filling up. Looking for options.

Thanks.

Post by **John** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:35 am

It depends a lot on the performance of the NFS server and the network. The disk usage pattern of Webinator is not designed to be efficient over NFS, however there are some people who have successfully used it. You do need to be careful to make sure only one machine is accessing the database at any time.

mjacobson · Post by **mjacobson** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:56 am

So it is not recommended that one machine be running the dowalk script and a different machine serve the search results?

Post by **mark** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:14 am

Correct.