From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 24 08:20:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA15914 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 08:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.mnsinc.com (mail1.mnsinc.com [206.55.3.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA15891 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 08:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from steffi.mnsinc.com (steffi.mnsinc.com [206.239.33.180]) by mail1.mnsinc.com (8.6.5/8.7.1) with ESMTP id LAA28096 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:20:43 -0500 Received: (from robert@localhost) by steffi.mnsinc.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA00751; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:20:37 -0500 (EST) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD NFS performance. Reply-To: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com References: From: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com (Robert Nicholson) Date: 24 Feb 1996 11:20:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Ron G. Minnich"'s message of Fri, 23 Feb 1996 09:07:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Organization: x Lines: 20 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk writes: >It's going to take some real work to make linux nfs run well. The server >is in user mode -- no multiple nfs requests active (until they multhread >it). also, user-mode means a couple context switches per request -- oops. >Also linux networking performance is still way off the mark. >ron When using NFS for the sole purpose of sharing files a number of OS's and only one user. What's the typical hardware configuration used? ie. what machine makes a good NFS server when the number of users is 1? -- "For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots" (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)