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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2017 20:22:16 -0500
From:      Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin+bsd@citrin.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: speeding up pxe netboot
Message-ID:  <c2bb2671-7f30-13ea-3f00-f67a92b4120a@citrin.ru>
In-Reply-To: <e82cc46b-a2c6-8167-0fcc-c7ecb7cf0edd@sentex.net>
References:  <e82cc46b-a2c6-8167-0fcc-c7ecb7cf0edd@sentex.net>

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On 03/02/17 15:13, Mike Tancsa wrote:
 > The slow part seems to be on the boot up from
 > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x1532060 \
....
 > Nothing in the tcpdumpd jumps out
 >
 > 12:08:23.719761 IP 10.0.0.42.987 > 10.0.0.1.2049: NFS request xid 738
 > 104 lookup fh
 > Unknown/888D10CADE13D1BC0A0018680400000059813E000000000000000000
 > "kernel"
 > 12:08:23.719924 IP 10.0.0.1.2049 > 10.0.0.42.987: NFS reply xid 738
 > reply ok 236 lookup fh
 > Unknown/888D10CADE13D1BC0A00018004000000568B3E000000000000000000

1. May be there a big delay after tftp request for pxeboot and starting 
NFS transfer? Try to check tcpdump starting from dhcp/pxe requests.

2. Try to increase nfs.read_size, see pxeboot(8).



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