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Re: [Nbd] Scalability.



Dean,

--On 2 November 2011 10:41:08 -0700 Dean Montgomery <dmonty@...954...> wrote:

However on the server side I noticed that nbd-server is single threaded
as opposed to multi-threaded NFS.  Will the NBD server be able to handle
200 clients?

nbd forks, so each client has a separate process. fork()ing is not so
bad for long running processes. Like most filesystem related activities,
I expect your bottleneck will be I/O bandwidth rather than anything else.

--
Alex Bligh



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