Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 14:23:37 -0500 (EST) From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improving NFS Performance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971223142146.23799B-100000@piano.synapse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971223125952.22927A-100000@piano.synapse.net>
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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Evan Champion wrote: > On local disks, I am able to get transfer rates in the megabytes per > second; from the NFS server, I am seeing a ceiling of about 40 _kilobytes_ > per second! It is so poor that I am actually able to see the difference > connected over ISDN, where an FTP from the server would net 15 kBps, but I > only get 9 FTP'ing from the mounted disk on one of the clients. I decided to see what would happen if I used nfsv2 instead of nfsv3. My transfer rates went from 40 kilobytes per second to 3-4 megabytes per second! Can someone explain to me why that might be? :-) Thanks. Evan
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