From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 10:27:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA06485 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA06478 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id TAA24576 ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 19:27:41 +0200 (METDST) Received: from iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (iaka) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960507(mailhost)) at Thu, 13 Jun 1996 19:27:23 +0100 Received: by iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jf930126) at Thu, 13 Jun 1996 19:27:22 +0100 Message-Id: <199606131827.AA22687@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: Fast SCSI controller To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 19:27:22 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: "Alain FAUCONNET" Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606131500.LAA03586@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Jun 13, 96 11:00:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Horrid in what way? > > Horrid as in whenever my system is underload and I start to do alot of NFS > traffic out to somewhere it goes click click whirrr ... NOTHING > > Takes a hard reset to bring it back. > > -Crh > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu Weird... it sounds precisely like what made me switch my desktop PC from Linux to FreeBSD... while running Linux, a compilation of gcc on a remote filesystem was bringing an otherwise idle SS10/40 on its knees, with its disk making a noise like a coffee grinding machine ! Are you sure you're not using some strange NFS r/w block size ? or some especially poor net adapter ? I have nothing but praises for FreeBSD's NFS code (both server and client) and network layers, even on my not-too-fast 3C509 ! Have a good day, _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]