RE: IFS vs Windows file serving -- MIDRANGE-L

Mike, I like the legalese on your signature.  :-))

Paul Nelson
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Crump, Mike
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:37 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: IFS vs Windows file serving

Under many circumstances, I would fully agree with you.  Your attitude
is commendable - I probably should have pursued the issue further.
Given the general-purpose nature of the machine, I would have expected
these results.  Not that they should be acceptable.  My unofficial
opinion is that despite all of the new work that the iSeries now does it
is and still is a 5250/batch machine at heart.  In addition, that would
affect things such as Netserver, HTTP, JAVA, etc.  Not saying that it
does other things badly just not as well.  And definitely not
scientific.

I will try to do some more work on the underlying nature of the issue.
I am not an expert but I think I can get some assistance in this area.

Michael Crump
 
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN  47302
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IFS vs Windows file serving

I apologise if I sounded flip.  Being a system i bigot, it is hard for 
me to accept the idea that others do anything better/faster.


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Actually I think his explanation was outstanding.  Especially the tips

about tuning the run time characteristics of the server jobs.
What else could it be?
Well, I am not technical enough to reverse engineer the NetServer code

to

see if the code is less efficient than Windows.
Perhaps it was the onboard processor of using a Windows IXS card to

handle

just file serving.  Would that be like having a dedicated IOP just for

NetServer?
Bus thingy?  I don't think so.  I've heard that iSCSI can even be a

better

performer than IXS for this kind of file serving.

Rob Berendt