From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 11:54:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD69437B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 11:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9FA43E52 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 11:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g67Ish8Y022461; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:54:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:54:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Tim Kellers Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kellers@njit.edu Subject: Re: NFS/NIS... arg! Message-ID: <20020707185443.GE52229@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020706235347.Y14336-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020706235347.Y14336-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 07), Tim Kellers said: > I've got courses to teach FreeBSD in FreeBSD coming up Real Soon Now. > I've set up our instructional lab to use NIS/NFS from a master server > so that all the student UID's are authenticated from the same server > and have their home directories mounted on the same, central, server. > > The problem is that the NIS/NFS combination is way too slow. It's > far from "snappy" in the command line environment and in Desktop mode > (one of the last sections in the curriculum is "Advanced Desktops") > loading is so slow it's as though time itself has stopped. This is a pretty vague complaint. Exactly what is not "snappy"? By far the worst enemy of NFS is dropped packets. Make sure you have a fully-switched ethernet path from client to server, preferably 100mbit or faster. I have never seen any slowness attributable to NIS (I've only got 150 userids though). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message