From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 3 15:31:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D818F37B639 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:31:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11735; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:20:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007032220.PAA11735@implode.root.com> To: Simon Heath Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor NFS performance with 4.0-stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 18:26:58 EDT." <200007032226.SAA13922@hardy.mskcc.org> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 15:20:13 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On moving from 4.0-release to 4.0-stable I'm getting a big slow down in file >transfers over NFS. Previously it was taking about 8s to transfer a 64Mb >file (100baseTX), so about 8Mb/sec. Now it's closer to 20k/sec... This is >when accessing both NFS servers running FreeBSD 4.0-release and Solaris 8. >Access speeds when the 4.0-stable machine is running as a server are also >very slow. Access speeds between the other machines is at the 8Mb/sec >level. Any suggestions as to what I should be looking at? The nic card is >an Intel EtherExpress Pro, and there do not appear to be any relevant error >messages in /var/log/messages or dmesg. Any suggestions gratefully >received! Are any of the machines connected to a switch? Is the duplex detected correctly on all of the ports involved? -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message