Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 18:35:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Heath <heath@hardy.mskcc.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, heath@hardy.mskcc.org Subject: Re: Poor NFS performance with 4.0-stable Message-ID: <200007032235.SAA13976@hardy.mskcc.org>
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>>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? > Not sure - all machines are on the same subnet and connected to the same 'box'. ifconfig -a on the 'bad' machine shows media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active which is the same that I'm getting on the other FreeBSD machines (running 4.0-release). Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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