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From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
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Subject: Re: Improving NFS Performance
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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