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Date:      Sat, 1 Sep 2001 13:43:03 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   AMD defaults? (was: Re: Tuning UDP for NFS)
Message-ID:  <20010901134303.X81307@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200109011601.f81G1tY09116@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:01:55AM -0700
References:  <20010831130902.A15501@nomad.lets.net> <20010831125120.O81307@elvis.mu.org> <200108312003.f7VK3k004259@vashon.polstra.com> <20010831154119.S81307@elvis.mu.org> <200109011601.f81G1tY09116@vashon.polstra.com>

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Any AMD gurus in the house?

Alfred Perlstein  <bright@mu.org> wrote:
>
> Using UDP is usually a bad idea, I would use tcp, I find that these
> flags make for a decent mount point that's quite fast:
>   rw,tcp,intr,nfsv3,-w=32768,-r=32768

* John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> [010901 11:02] wrote:
> In article <20010831154119.S81307@elvis.mu.org>,
> Alfred Perlstein  <bright@mu.org> wrote:
> > * John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> [010831 15:03] wrote:
> > > FreeBSD's "src/etc/amd.map" file still has "vers=2,proto=udp".  Do
> > > you think we should change it?
> >
> > I'm not familiar with amd, what implications would that have?
> >
> > What worries me is people using amd against a v2 server, also those
> > tunables are good at tickling bugs in other NFS implementations
> > (as well as ours, at least a year or two ago).  So if amd is smart
> > enough to downgrade then yes, otherwise perhaps just a comment to
> > indicate that the person may want to use better mount options... ?
>
> I have the same concerns.  Unfortunately I don't know enough about
> NFS interoperability issues to say whether it would cause problems
> or not.
>
> OTOH we have been moving toward giving our default configurations
> better performance at the expense of a small amount of failsafe-ness.
> I'm inclined to think this might be a good candidate for that trend.

Since niether of us are sure, I'm reposting this to -arch in hopes
of getting more feedback.  Oh and don't forget 'rdirplus'. :)

--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'

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