From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 24 01:10:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA13072 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 01:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA13067 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 01:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA05616; Sat, 24 May 1997 17:40:37 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705240810.RAA05616@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 3COM stuff In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "May 24, 97 09:08:18 am" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 17:40:37 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug Rabson stands accused of saying: > > > > NFS on those cards is _BAD_. If at all possible, do an FTP install. > > If you must use NFS, make sure the rsize parameter is _small_ - I > > recommend 1024 as a general rule. > > In theory, NFS over TCP should be usable with these cards. This is why? I would have thought that an 8k read would result in 8k of packets, unless the window is somehow reduced through magic knowledge of the card's receive capabilities...? > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[