From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 21:24:22 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 912A237B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C94DF43E58 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:24:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g694OI196313; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:24:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id g694OGV96305; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:24:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: serv1.wallnet.com: timothyk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:24:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers To: Dan Nelson Cc: , Subject: Re: NFS/NIS... arg! In-Reply-To: <20020707185443.GE52229@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: <20020709002047.C94254-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Not "snappy" means palpably slow. Imagine a shared dialup network connection with more than one machine attempting downloads. To be a bit more concrete, I can login via the CLI, but AI have to wait several seconds before my typed commands echo back on the originating workstation. I think I've got some network gremlins to contend with but I appreciate any input you might have, and thanks for the reply. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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