Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:41:45 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Impoving NFS performance Message-ID: <02010818414501.05084@proxy.the-i-pa.com>
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Ran some tests today to try to determine where some bottlenecks are occurring in a recently installed WAN and found something rather disturbing. In tests, NFS is anywhere from 4 to 20 times slower than SMB or FTP file transfer. FTP = ~80k/sec SMB = ~60k/sec NFS = ~25k/sec (although one test showed 2.5k/sec - ugh!) Fellow I work with claims that this is just the way NFS is and that we should abandon it for other file-sharing methods. Anyone have any light to shed on this? Is NFS inherently slower than SMB and other protocols? If no, what can be done to speed things up? TIA, -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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