Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:05:19 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? FreeBSD NFS Message-ID: <19981111210519.A6032@Denninger.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112154240.370-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 10:04:43PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112140340.725-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112154240.370-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net>
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On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 10:04:43PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > > > When we "catch up" to Linux, for every advance, we always have a > > > > better-implemented version of whatever new has been gotten on Linux. Maybe > > > > except for NFS.... but that's being working on, eh? > > > > > > I hope you are refering to Linux NFS being far inferior to FreeBSD's > > > impelementation. If you are not then where do we fall behind? I haven't > > > seen Linux outperform FreeBSD in any NFS work i've done. > > > > Last I had heard, NFS was still too unstable to be used heavily in > > FreeBSD, but "worked" in Linux. But, who knows for sure? I don't run any > > Linux systems, and I don't really use NFS in FreeBSD. > > Then perhaps you should stay quiet on the issue. > > FreeBSD has outperformed linux by several orders of magnitude in client > side NFS for a long time. The newer linux development kernels come close, > but when concurrent NFS requests are made Linux chokes while FreeBSD > maintains a broadband'ish state. > > I know i posted several times about problems with NFS (about a month ago) > but since McKusik's fixes I've yet to have a problem. Have these fixes been committed, and if so, when? -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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