Re: Re: Curious Observation with File::Copy;

That's a good point. However, since this is a production server, I cannot reboot it. Although it was rebooted yesterday. I don't think the network is going to be much of an issue because the directories I'm copying between are local to the server on which I'm testing. I'm making a rough guess on the times, because I had the program that transferred the files record the start and stop times into a file. I think that there might be a +/- of 1-2 minutes in the times but we also sat and marked time with a stopwatch as well because we didn't believe that there could be that much discrepency in the times. I just ran the tests again this morning while the system was relatively quiet and there is not a lot going on on that server anyway.

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Re: Curious Observation with File::Copy; by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 27, 2003 at 13:33 UTC
You are doing performance testing on a production server? I find that mind boggling. Anyway, why don't you perform the tests in a test environment, or even your development environment? I'm not quite sure what you mean by the directories being local to the server - you were copying stuff from one machine to another using NFS, weren't you? Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: Curious Observation with File::Copy; by nimdokk (Vicar) on Jun 27, 2003 at 13:42 UTC
It is a bit mind-boggling I admit but we don't have a good test environment at the moment with which to run this particular test. What I mean by the NFS is simply this: we have a directory say `/path/to/test` and a second directory `/path/to/another/test`. Both these directories are on ServerA. NFS comes in because `another/test` is being exported to ServerB with NFS. "Ex libris un peut de tout"	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Curious Observation with File::Copy; by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 27, 2003 at 13:49 UTC
So, what are you testing? A copy from `/path/to/test` to `/path/to/another/test`, all done on ServerA? In that case, NFS doesn't come in at all. Abigail	[reply]