From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 13 7:30:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B9237B419 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 07:30:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBDFUZr01736; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:30:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:30:35 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Matthew Dillon , Geoff Mohler , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step Message-ID: <20011213153035.GB56448@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200112130659.fBD6xZt55360@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 13), Mike Silbersack said: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Geoff Mohler wrote: > > :Are there any hidden secrets to eeking out more performance from > > :the BSD NFS client (other than version types and the normal fstab > > :tweaks). > > And if you hadn't heard, Matt just fixed a couple of bugs in the tcp > stack which improves NFS greatly. It sounds like after this round of > NFS fixes, the first answer to NFS questions should be: Upgrade to > 4.5! I don't even bother with TCP mounts; my default amd rule says proto=udp. Is there any reason to add the overhead of the TCP stack if you're not leaving your own ethernet? You should be able to easily saturate a 100mbit link with FreeBSD 4.* machines, and I can do 15-20MB/sec with Netgear GA620 gigabit nics (SMP 2 x pIII/600). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message