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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 1995 15:23:11 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org, esser@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject:   Re: slow nfsv3 writes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950719152148.22916C-100000@minnow.render.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507191408.AAA23267@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Thu, 20 Jul 1995, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >> I was getting 9K/sec for writes before I complained and this change
> >> was made :-).
> 
> >How about running a snoop and get some per-packet times ?
> 
> `iozone 1 8192' on a 486DX2/66 over lo0 reports reading at
> 1775129 bytes/sec and writing at 111227 bytes/sec.  tcpdump reports
> about 4ms for reading 8292 bytes and about 70ms for writing 8320
> bytes.
> 
> The problem was that this is actually for nfsv2.  For some reason I
> thought that nfsv3 would be the default.

I think the default should be for mount_nfs to attempt a v3 mount rpc and 
if that fails, then fall back to v2.

> 
> Under nfsv3, `iozone 4 8192' reports ... oops it hangs on netio and
> other processes hang on nfsrcvlk and after a little while other
> processes hang on ufslk2 ...  This is probably the same problem
> that Doug saw.

I haven't had a chance to look at this yet.  I am in Windows95 mode at 
the moment :-(

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