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Date:      Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:54:29 -0000
From:      Atte Peltomaki <atte@naama.kameli.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS lagging
Message-ID:  <20030217020220.GA11024@naama>
In-Reply-To: <20030212102523.GA45290@naama>
References:  <20030212102523.GA45290@naama>

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> I'm running FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a dual P3 800MHz/512MB/Tekram DC-390
> SCSI. Moved all my IDE disks on another 'puter to access via NFS. So I
> ended up putting up a Debian server, because some of the disks were
> already in ext2fs. Now I'm experiencing heavy lag on my desktop when I
> use the NFS intensively, like copy a large file over. I get these 1-3
> second pauses in everything, looks like ssh lag but it's local(!). Mouse
> pointer in X doesn't seem affected, but even console lags if you type
> in. 
> 
> I'm using NFSv3, tried it over TCP too, but since it's LAN, i dropped 
> back to UDP.
 
I upgraded to -CURRENT, which helped a lot. Dunno what exactly was the
bit that needed upgrading, perhaps the xl driver.



Atte Peltomäki
http://kameli.org



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