The primary goal of this research is to improve the scalability and robustness of the Linux operating system to support greater network server workloads more reliably. We are specifically interested in single-system scalability, performance, and reliability of network server infrastructure products running on Linux, such as LDAP directory servers, IMAP electronic mail servers, and web servers, among others. We're becoming more familiar with the Linux development process, and Linux performance and scalability issues. We're continuing to reach out to potential sponsors.
Work continues on long-term projects.
G disk drives have been added to allow us to begin testing Linux software RAID support, and to include the Netscape Messaging Server in our benchmark efforts. We intend to add Gigabit ethernet networking to our test harness soon. Andy continues to develop an NFSv4 implementation, now based on the Linux 2.2.10 NFSv3 implementation. Initial results show a measurable performance gain, but not as much as we'd hoped. We are still planning some heavily loaded web server benchmarks to finish this study.