Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:19:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alright, who's the smart alleck that fixed NFS this last week? :) , WAS: Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need tester Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.990421101447.13581E-100000@oldnews.quick.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990421120317.11384t-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > > Try mounting with -d... Can I make a guess that the NFS mount is going over > > 100MB ethernet? I have a strong theory that the dynamic retransmit timer > > needs rework for low latency connections, with high variability in their > > performance during high traffic. (lots of collisions) > > Hmmm, well the client/server are both on 100mbit > full duplex switched ethernet, fxp0<->fxp0 with no load > other than the build going on. > With a full duplex setup collisions don't exist. In a switched setup the latency should be very consistent and extremely low. Something else must be wrong here. I'm very glad NFS is getting fixed - I'd really like to use FreeBSD in a frontend/backend setup with multiple round-robin DNS setup web servers with the web content on a backend NFS/RAID server. (poor man's Network Appliance equivalent :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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