SUN NFS tuning query

[jbn at wdl1.UUCP]

     Is there any way to measure the buffer cache hit rate on a SUN file
server, lacking source?  Also, does SUN's kernel have hashed buffer lookup,
or will performance degrade if you have huge numbers of buffers?  Advice
on tuning NFS systems would be appreciated. 

      Incidentally, we've discovered that the most common file server operation
here is "lookup" (of a pathname), not read or write.  This seems strange,
until you realize that reads and writes may be satisfied in the station
caches, but lookups cannot be; clients must go back to the server for every
open operation; if they didn't, a client could open a file after another
client had deleted it.  An interesting side effect of SUN's stateless 
implementation.

					John Nagle