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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2005 07:57:14 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS read-ahead?
Message-ID:  <9f2h819gnc2938un66cpouvnrbti39adsv@4ax.com>
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On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:19:13 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:
>Now, the manual pages says for -a I should give values greater than 1 if=
=20
>bandwidth*delay is high. I'm on a swithed FastEthernet, so=20
>bandwidth=3D100Mb/s and delay is around 0.2 ms of ping roundtrip time.
>As for -r it says it should be used when there are many "fragments=20
>dropped due to timeout"; yet I see almost none.
>
>Do you have any suggested values to start with, before I make random=20
>experiments?

Hi,
	Offhand, not really, but if you look around via google for
mount_nfs freebsd "-r" a lot of people suggest r=3D32768,-w=3D32768.
Perhaps use that as a starting point and experiment to see what gives
you the best performance for your situation.

	---Mike
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Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net
Providing Internet Access since 1994
mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)



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