10GbE NFS performance on OS X Snow Leopard....

Submitted by trey on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 14:53

Over the weekend I finally managed to get 10GbE in a Mac and test network filesystem speed.

At this point, after considerable client-side tuning, sequential NFS performance is in the 230-250MB/s range for both read and write. I haven't yet tested SMB or AFP performance. I would not expect either to be faster than NFS.

The client is a current-generation Xserve with 2 Xeon 5620's and 3GB RAM running OSX Server 10.6.4.

Sandy Bridge render nodes....

Submitted by trey on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 19:20

The new Intel chips and socket 1155 motherboards are out, at reasonable prices.

The K-series chips are clearly trivial to overclock to the 4.5GHz range, and over 4GHz should be easily achievable even in a 1U rackmount case.

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