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Date:      Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:17:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja@cinenet.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   NFS slowness on 100 LAN
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95.990407130455.9027A-100000@hollywood.cinenet.net>

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I am seeing very slow response over NFS between a 3.1 client and Solaris
X86 NFS server, with both NIC's set to 100M-FD.   Writing a 2MB file takes
30 seconds.  

Some data points:
 1. The NIC card is a 3COM, and the ifconfig options are set to use
    "media 100BaseT mediaopt full-duplex"
 2. Mount options set to tcp, nfsv3. (udp or nfsv2 don't work either and
     cause system hangs).
 3. If the 3.1 client is slowed down to 10MB-FD, then writing the same
    file much faster, a typical response of under 1 second.
 4. The same slow behaviour is seen when accessing a FreeBSD NFS server,
    (although this is a 2.2.6 box).
 5. The switch is a 3COM Superswitch, with ports forced to 10FD or 100FD,
    depending on the machine (autonegotiate is off).

Attempting this with a Intel Pro100 shows the same behaviour.

Thanks for any help,

Suresh

 




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