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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, dfr@render.com
Subject: Re: slow nfsv3 writes
Cc: current@freebsd.org, esser@zpr.uni-koeln.de
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>> All combinations of interface, benchmark and benchmark block size that I tried
>> give about 100K/sec writes and 900K/sec reads.  The disk on the server is on
>> constantly.

>This is fixed by a recent change to vfs_bio.  The buffer cache was 
>getting confused and was forcing synchronous writes for blocksizes 
>smaller than 8k.  I now get 400k/sec writes to my sgi with all blocksizes.

I was getting 9K/sec for writes before I complained and this change
was made :-).

Bruce