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Xiaoyong Guo
Xiaoyong Guo
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I have a use case where multiple processes start simultaneously on one machine and all open the same set of NFS files (actually stored in another machine in the LAN) to process their content in different ways. My concern is regarding network efficiency: does NFS have any built-in mechanism to optimize this scenario, ensuring that the file content is transmitted only once over the network, even when accessed by multiple processes? If not, would this mean that in a scenario with 100 such processes, the same file content would be transmitted 100 times, potentially causing significant network overhead?

I have a use case where multiple processes start simultaneously and all open the same set of NFS files to process their content in different ways. My concern is regarding network efficiency: does NFS have any built-in mechanism to optimize this scenario, ensuring that the file content is transmitted only once over the network, even when accessed by multiple processes? If not, would this mean that in a scenario with 100 such processes, the same file content would be transmitted 100 times, potentially causing significant network overhead?

I have a use case where multiple processes start simultaneously on one machine and all open the same set of NFS files (actually stored in another machine in the LAN) to process their content in different ways. My concern is regarding network efficiency: does NFS have any built-in mechanism to optimize this scenario, ensuring that the file content is transmitted only once over the network, even when accessed by multiple processes? If not, would this mean that in a scenario with 100 such processes, the same file content would be transmitted 100 times, potentially causing significant network overhead?

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Xiaoyong Guo
Xiaoyong Guo
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Does NFS have an intelligent algorithm for managing concurrent reads of NFS files by multiple processes?

I have a use case where multiple processes start simultaneously and all open the same set of NFS files to process their content in different ways. My concern is regarding network efficiency: does NFS have any built-in mechanism to optimize this scenario, ensuring that the file content is transmitted only once over the network, even when accessed by multiple processes? If not, would this mean that in a scenario with 100 such processes, the same file content would be transmitted 100 times, potentially causing significant network overhead?