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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:59:18 +0600 (GMT+0600)
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In-Reply-To: <199508200552.WAA00268@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Aug 19, 95 10:52:11 pm
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> >> >     What can I do to improve NFS writes to a FreeBSD server?  The
> >> > machine was idle at the time, with four nfsd's running.  Should I be
> >> > using UDP or TCP (I turned both on)?
> >> 
> >
> >Assuming you are running 2.1 branch: current (2.2) code includes support 
> >for write gathering, which can improve large write performance.
> >Be warned: 2.2 kernel is incompatible with 2.1 user space utilities.
> 
>    If there is interest, I'll implement an NFS_ASYNC kernel option for both
> FreeBSD 2.1 and 2.2.

Yes, please!

		Serge Babkin

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