From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 16:16: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C3AD37B416 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 90877 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2002 00:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.the-i-pa.com) (151.201.71.209) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2002 00:18:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Impoving NFS performance Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:41:45 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02010818414501.05084@proxy.the-i-pa.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Ran some tests today to try to determine where some bottlenecks are occurring in a recently installed WAN and found something rather disturbing. In tests, NFS is anywhere from 4 to 20 times slower than SMB or FTP file transfer. FTP = ~80k/sec SMB = ~60k/sec NFS = ~25k/sec (although one test showed 2.5k/sec - ugh!) Fellow I work with claims that this is just the way NFS is and that we should abandon it for other file-sharing methods. Anyone have any light to shed on this? Is NFS inherently slower than SMB and other protocols? If no, what can be done to speed things up? TIA, -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message