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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2000 18:35:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Simon Heath <heath@hardy.mskcc.org>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, heath@hardy.mskcc.org
Subject:   Re: Poor NFS performance with 4.0-stable
Message-ID:  <200007032235.SAA13976@hardy.mskcc.org>

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>>On moving from 4.0-release to 4.0-stable I'm getting a big slow down in file
>>transfers over NFS.  Previously it was taking about 8s to transfer a 64Mb
>>file (100baseTX), so about 8Mb/sec.  Now it's closer to 20k/sec...  This is
>>when accessing both NFS servers running FreeBSD 4.0-release and Solaris 8.
>>Access speeds when the 4.0-stable machine is running as a server are also
>>very slow.  Access speeds between the other machines is at the 8Mb/sec
>>level.  Any suggestions as to what I should be looking at?  The nic card is
>>an Intel EtherExpress Pro, and there do not appear to be any relevant error
>>messages in /var/log/messages or dmesg.  Any suggestions gratefully
>>received!
>
>   Are any of the machines connected to a switch? Is the duplex detected
>correctly on all of the ports involved?
>

Not sure - all machines are on the same subnet and connected to the same
'box'.  ifconfig -a on the 'bad' machine shows 

media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active

which is the same that I'm getting on the other FreeBSD machines (running
4.0-release).

Simon


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