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Date:      Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:37:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net>
To:        mi@video-collage.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS3 serving: FreeBSD vs. Irix
Message-ID:  <199808290037.UAA20159@lucy.bedford.net>
In-Reply-To: <199808251746.NAA16861@xxx.video-collage.com> from Mikhail Teterin at "Aug 25, 98 01:46:34 pm"

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Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm seeing my PPro200 with FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE being about 3 times slower
> (according to iozone) then Irix 5.3 running on R4000 at 100MHz with SGI's
> latest NFS3 patches. Memory is plentyfull.
> 
> The client is also an Irix machine very similar to the server. The network
> is 10BaseT and the numbers are (24Mb test file):
> 
> 	Irix to FreeBSD:
> 
>         237929 bytes/second for writing the file
> 	5642561 bytes/second for reading the file
> 
> 	Irix to Irix:
> 
> 	717997 bytes/second for writing the file
> 	5423668 bytes/second for reading the file
> 
 ...snip...

DId you get any reples to this?

All I can think of is that FreeBSD and Irix are disagreeing
about the optimal block size. You might try forcing the r and
w blocksizes on the client to various values. (1024,2048,...).

Serving from PPro 200 to 486/33 8MB over 10Base2, I got consistent
write times of around 500000 bytes/second. (Both boxes running
FreeBSD 2.2.6-R).

Could there be an evil interaction of NFS block size and ethernet
packet size? (Like in Linux NFS?)

As a last resort you might try running tcpdump and seeing what's
going on. Does nfsstat tell you anything?

D.V.

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