Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:23:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Stone <freebsd-performance@dfmm.org> To: <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Slow disk write speeds over network Message-ID: <20030610150502.H14379-100000@walter> In-Reply-To: <3EE595D2.B223CA19@mindspring.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > You haven't said if you were using UDP or TCP for the mounts; you > should definitely use TCP with FreeBSD NFS servers; it's also just > generally a good idea, since UDP frags act as a fixed non-sliding > window: NFS over UDP sucks. Huh. I thought that the conventional wisdom was that on a local network with no packet loss (and therefore no re-transmission penalties), udp was way faster because the overhead was so much less. Sorry if this seems like a pretty basic question, but can you explain this? -Jason -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freud himself was a bit of a cold fish, and one cannot avoid the suspicion that he was insufficiently fondled when he was an infant. -- Ashley Montagu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: See https://private.idealab.com/public/jason/jason.gpg iD8DBQE+5lpgswXMWWtptckRAqIUAKCQxIoFOoYuqhOQ5vF9JNwbTe0kbQCghJVe HblPYP54wIyhZVGFwqrDe30= =kbba -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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