Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:54:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kellers@njit.edu Subject: Re: NFS/NIS... arg! Message-ID: <20020707185443.GE52229@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020706235347.Y14336-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> References: <20020706235347.Y14336-100000@serv1.wallnet.com>
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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
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